Early type of terrarium, a sealed protective container for plants
A Wardian case
The Wardian case was an early type of terrarium, a sealed protective container for plants. It found great use in the 19th century in protecting foreign plants imported to Europe from overseas, the great majority of which had previously died from exposure during long sea journeys, frustrating the many scientific and amateur botanists of the time. The Wardian case was the direct forerunner of the modern terrarium and vivarium and the inspiration for the glass aquarium.
It is named after Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward (1791–1868) of London, who promoted the case after experiments.[1] He published a book titled On the Growth of Plants in Closely Glazed Cases in 1842.[2] A Scottish botanist named A. A. Maconochie had created a similar terrarium almost a decade earlier, but his failure to publish meant that Ward received credit as the sole inventor.[3]
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^Thacker, Christopher (1985). The History of Gardens. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 237. ISBN 9780520056299.
^Maylack, Jen (12 November 2017). "How a Glass Terrarium Changed the World". The Atlantic. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
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