John hope royal botanic gardenhous - Edinburg - Scotland
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lopac44
N 55° 58.017 W 003° 12.520
30U E 486974 N 6202420
Verry beautiful greenhouse in the botanic garden.
Waymark Code: WM9ZY1
Location: Northern Scotland, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/24/2010
Views: 17
RBGE's first glasshouse, the Tropical Palm House, was built in 1834 at a cost of £1,500. Some 28 years later the extension, or Temperate Palm House, was built by Robert Matheson with a Parliamentary grant of £6,000. The Temperate Palm House measures 15.24 m (50ft) to the top of the stonework, with each glass dome 3.35 m (11ft) giving a total height of 21.95 m (72ft).
The original glasshouse range was refurbished in 1849 under the auspices of Regius Keeper John Hutton Balfour, but by the 1960s these glasshouses were falling into a state of disrepair and were replaced
Type of Greenhouse: Botanical display - public
Type of Cover: Glass panel
What is the shape of this greenhouse: Geodesic dome
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