Posts Tagged ‘terrariums’
The Forgotten Letter That Changed Plant Travel: John Smith and the Wardian Case
New Holland to the Cape of Good Hope Today the botanist John Smith wrote a letter to Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward. Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, January 24, 1842. Dear Sir, In reply to your inquiry [regarding] the … results obtained by [using] close-glazed cases for the transfer of living plants from one country to another, I…
Read MoreNathanial Bagshaw Ward: Commemorating the Inventor of the First Terrarium
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 4, 1868 On this day, we bade farewell to Dr. Nathanial Bagshaw Ward, a man whose seemingly mundane observation of a fern spore in an insect jar would revolutionize the botanical world…
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