To: Michael.SF.
"Cucumber frames often turn up in 19th century children's stories, where boys were constantly in trouble for breaking the glass. They warmed the earth and extended the growing season, so were crucial to the supply of "Mediterranean" summer vegetables in Britain, before the age of horticultural polythene and container-loads of tomatoes crossing the English Channel."
http://www.oldandinteresting.com/victorian-garden-frames.aspx
To: Neanderthal
Wesley Crusher was almost executed for that!
21 posted on
05/20/2016 4:32:01 AM PDT by
Do_Tar
(Sorry for the Star Trek (Next Gen) reference.)
To: Neanderthal
"Cucumber frames often turn up in 19th century children's stories, where boys were constantly in trouble for breaking the glass. They warmed the earth Today those boys would ne lauded as environmental heroes.
27 posted on
05/20/2016 7:33:25 PM PDT by
Oztrich Boy
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