Wardian case

It also went by the name Wardian case.

Wardian cases were also the progenitors of the modern terrarium.

Instead of the terrarium, it was known as the Wardian Case.

Her bedroom still houses a Wardian case of ferns, which she especially treasured.

Many fashionable parlors had a Wardian case holding a collection of pteridophytes.

In his books he gave detailed instructions for growing plants in glass cases, known as a Wardian case, inside houses.

For an even more eye-catching patch of indoor greenery, check out a Wardian case.

More importantly, the Wardian case unleashed a revolution in the mobility of commercially important plants.

The plants will be in elegant glass and wrought-iron miniature greenhouses called Wardian cases.

Wardian cases have thus been credited for helping break geographic monopolies in the production of important agricultural goods.

He attempted to make a greenhouse at the Clapham garden on the principle of the Wardian case.

The trees came as small plants in wooden cases, like miniature glasshouses, named Wardian cases after their inventor.

Ferneries took various forms, from those simple Wardian cases to glazed garden buildings or collections of ferns planted outside.

To his enormous surprise, some time shortly after his return he found a Wardian Case in a locked shed on the estate.

Wardian cases soon became features of stylish drawing rooms in Western Europe and the United States.

Many of the Wardian cases were freestanding, rising regally atop carved wood or cast-iron pedestals.

The Wardian case was an early type of sealed protective container for plants, an early version of the terrarium.

The gnome, cunningly sitting inside a kind of mini-indoor greenhouse called a Wardian case, can usually be found on the estate, by the clock tower.

For botanists, Nathaniel Ward invented the 'Wardian case' in which plants could grow sealed under glass.

This, he was able to do due to the invention of the Wardian cases by Dr Nathaniel Ward.

Since ferns grew best in the Wardian case, there was a fern craze in which every middle-class house displayed a collection of greenery.

Marten is also working with a designer to make a contemporary "Wardian case with a twist," including LED lighting.

Loddiges was the Vice-President of The Horticultural Society and Wardian cases became popular.

Ferns were grown in glazed fernerys, shady yards, window boxes or Wardian cases and even roads and houses were named after them.

The fashion for growing ferns indoors led to the development of the Wardian case, a glazed cabinet that would exclude air pollutants and maintain the necessary humidity.