This is more of a history than a greenhouse question, but I was unsure where else to post. I was looking something up & came across some odd wording in a very old issue of Orchid Review (vol. 9, from 1901, p. 165, viewed on Google Books):
Peristeria pendula (t. 3479) "was imported with many other rarities from Demerara, by John Alcard, Esq., in whose stove at Stratford Green it flowered in January of the present year, and who kindly sent us the drawing here engraved, from the pencil of V. Bartholomew, Esq., Associate of Painters in Water Colours" Bletia patula (t. 3518) is a native of Hayti, which was received at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from Dr. Fischer, of St. Petersburg, and flowered finely in the stove.
So, is "stove" an old synonym for greenhouse, or does it mean something else?
"Stove" = greenhouse??
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