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According to Pliny, Roman Emperor Tiberius’s doctors instructed their charge to consume a fruit of the Cucurbits family each day. To grow these melon and cucumber fruits year-round on his home island of Capri, Tiberius directed construction of specularia: “[He] had raised beds made in frames upon wheels, by means of which the Cucumis were moved and exposed to the full heat of the sun; while, in winter, they were withdrawn, and placed under the protection of frames glazed with mirror-stone.”
Thus begins
The Conservatory: Gardens Under Glass. Illustrating their text with stunning photography, the authors Alan Stein and Nancy Virts, co-founders of Maryland’s Tanglewood Conservatories, survey the evolution of the conservatory in Europe, North America, and, ultimately, the world. The conservatory, an outgrowth of global trade, imperialism, and innovation, embodies a historical leap in the conjoining of architecture and landscape architecture the extension of the growing s
PITTSBURGH Like so many during the pandemic, Galadriel Strauser has kept contact with people outside her socially distanced COVID bubble to a minimum.
The mother of seven owns both a commercial cleaning business and a facility management facility, and I m charged with keeping everyone safe, says Mrs. Stauser of Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
She knew her family would not be together during the holidays, which presented a problem: Her daughters, one recently married and another a recent college grad, were counting on learning how to make her famed stuffing. They ve been asking for recipes as they are kind of growing up, says Strauser, who grew up cooking with her maternal grandmother, DeVona Stewart, in Harmony, Pennsylvania.
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Once again, Post-Gazette Publisher John R. Block has lost his two beloved basset hounds, Molly and Penelope. They disappeared in a crowd at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. As you search for them, click the revelers to see their identities.
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By Grace Mitchell Tada, Associate ASLA
According to Pliny, Roman Emperor Tiberius’s doctors instructed their charge to consume a fruit of the Cucurbits family each day. To grow these melon and cucumber fruits year-round on his home island of Capri, Tiberius directed construction of specularia: “[He] had raised beds made in frames upon wheels, by means of which the Cucumis were moved and exposed to the full heat of the sun; while, in winter, they were withdrawn, and placed under the protection of frames glazed with mirror-stone.”
Thus begins
The Conservatory: Gardens Under Glass. Illustrating their text with stunning photography, the authors Alan Stein and Nancy Virts, co-founders of Maryland’s Tanglewood Conservatories, survey the evolution of the conservatory in Europe, North America, and, ultimately, the world. The conservatory, an outgrowth of global trade, imperialism, and innovation, embodies a historical leap in the conjoining of architecture and landscape architect