An Underground Garden
Electrically Lit WE have all heard of the hanging gardens of Babylon, of certain famous roof gardens, but it has remained for Viscount Fitzalan to establish an underground garden at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park. Here the plants and flowers, made to grow by artificial light and sunshine, create much interest. Fitted with two great ultra-violet ray lamps, suspended from the roof, and adjustable to any height, this cellar produces choice blooms and fruits which are not ordinarily obtainable until later in the season. The cellar is kept at a moderate temperature, and the flowers are seldom given more than eight hours’ "sun." A shaft of daylight is allowed to pentrate, and the subdued light from this simulates twilight, and the light of early morning, when the lamps are turned off. The effects are extraordinary in some cases. For instance, vegetable marrow seeds become hardy plantd, ready to plant out, in 36 hours.
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Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 54, 25 July 1930, Page 34
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156An Underground Garden Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 54, 25 July 1930, Page 34
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