My lawn company wants to put lime on my lawn.I live in Massachusetts and the temperature is about 50 degrees.They do it in the spring.Should I need another application in the fall?
Coined in 1826, popular name for Drummond light, a brilliant light created by the incandescence of lime, adopted for lighthouses and later for the Victorian stage, where it illuminated the principal actors, hence the figurative sense of on stage, at the center of attention (1877).
This was once a powerful stage light that used lime (calcium oxide, not the greenish color) as its source of illumination. A oxyhydrogen flame was directed at a cylinder of lime. This resulted in a very bright light. Used in theaters to direct attention to the star of the show. So to be in the limelight was to be the center of attention.
Limelights were a kind of stage lighting in popular use from 1837 to late 1800's, with peak use in the 1860's and 1870's. Intense light was produced by heating a calcium oxide, which comes from limestone, with a hydrogen-oxygen torch, which gave the name limelight. Limelights were employed to highlight solo performers in the same manner as modern followspots.
