SC - succession-houses

Terry Nutter gfrose at cotton.vislab.olemiss.edu
Tue Aug 19 12:34:42 PDT 1997


Hi, Katerine here.  Lord Ras asks:

><< With so many of the terms related to greenhouses dating to the 17th C,
> and none earlier than the end of the first quarter, I begin strongly
> to suspect that regardless what I previously read, that's when the 
> structures date to.
>  >>
>
>You are perhaps accurate here but I am wondering if there is a relationship
>to these structures and the "orangeries <sp?>" which clearly date to an
>earlier date?

Certainly they could be related to orangeries.  I don't know anything
about when orangeries date to; the word itself is only attested in the
OED to the late 17th C.

Cheers,

- -- Katerine/Terry

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