Greenhouse at Down House, former home of Charles Darwin, Downe, Kent, England UK

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Down House is the former home of the English naturalist Charles Darwin and his family. It was in this house and garden that Darwin worked on his theories of evolution by natural selection which he had conceived in London before moving to Down. Darwin's interest in the Fertilisation of Orchids led him to get a new heated greenhouse constructed under the supervision of John Horwood, the gardener of Mr Turnbull at The Rookery: this was completed in February 1863

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Location: Bromley, London Borough of Bromley, United Kingdom
Photo credit: © Peter Conner / Alamy / Afripics
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