Then there were the hothouses.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
He is a little astonished upon entering the pleasure grounds to see one or more gardeners busy among the parterres and shrubberies, the rhododendrons, the cedar deodaras, the laurels, the pampas grass, the 'carpet gardening' beds, and the glass of distant hothouses glittering in the sun.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
It is a most delightful rural retreat, surrounded by hothouses, graperies, flower-plats, broad gravelled walks, and trees in great variety.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou