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  2. Desert Garden Conservatory - Wikipedia

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    The garden houses one of the most important collections of cacti and other succulent plants in the world, including a large number of rare and endangered species. The 3,000-square-foot (280 m 2) Desert Garden Conservatory serves The Huntington and public communities as a conservation facility, research resource and genetic diversity preserve.

  3. Conservatory (greenhouse) - Wikipedia

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    A traditional conservatory at the Horniman Museum in London, now used as a cafe. A modern implementation, Adelaide's Bicentennial Conservatory Conservatory interior in the Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape, Czech Republic. A conservatory is a building or room having glass or other transparent roofing and walls, used as a greenhouse or a ...

  4. Greenhouse - Wikipedia

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    Victoria amazonica (giant Amazon waterlilies) in a large greenhouse at the Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden. A greenhouse is a structure that is designed to regulate the temperature and humidity of the environment inside. There are different types of greenhouses, but they all have large areas covered with transparent materials that let ...

  5. Conservatory - Wikipedia

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    Conservatory may refer to: Conservatory (greenhouse), a substantial building or room where plants are cultivated, including medicinal ones and including attached residential solariums; Music school, or a school devoted to other arts such as dance; Sunroom, a smaller glass enclosure or garden shed attached to a house, also called a conservatory

  6. Conservatory of Flowers - Wikipedia

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    The Gould Conservatory at Lyndhurst is credited with being the first conservatory of iron in the United States and with inspiring subsequent structures of the same material. After their success with the Gould Conservatory of 1881, Lord & Burnham and other conservatory manufacturers apparently produced few large conservatories of wood.

  7. Volunteer Park Conservatory - Wikipedia

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    The conservatory. The Volunteer Park Conservatory is a botanical garden, conservatory, and Seattle landmark located in Seattle, Washington at the north end of Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill. Made up of 3,426 glass panes fit into a wood and iron framework, this Victorian-style greenhouse structure is modeled on London's Crystal Palace. Inside ...

  8. Brothers jailed for US home repairs scam targeting the elderly

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    Two County Fermanagh brothers who scammed elderly homeowners in the United States out of hundreds of thousands of dollars have been sentenced to 18 months in a US prison and face likely deportation.

  9. Duke Gardens (New Jersey) - Wikipedia

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    Duke Gardens formed four sides of a quadrangle, and took at least one hour to view. The entry fell on the side formed by a Conservatory designed by Horace Trumbauer and constructed 1909-17. [12] The other three sides were formed by greenhouses in styles that are still manufactured. The greenhouse over the English Garden was installed in the 1990s.