forcing house

noun

a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened

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They shipped him out to this tropic forcing house of ours—to let him keep on developing!

To be placed in any convenient part of the forcing-house for a few days until the soil is warm.

In these days of forcing-house fiction it is refreshing to fall back on a simple, well-told story such as this.

The trees should be removed to the forcing house in the beginning of December, if fruit be required very early in the season.

For forcing, the clumps are lifted in solid masses, with the soil attached, and placed in hotbeds or forcing house benches.

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