Description
First book on the Wardian case, an invention by Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward that spurred a revolution in the movement of plants Wardian case transformed the world’s plant communities, fuelled the commercial nursery trade and late nineteenth-century imperialism, and forever altered the global environmentWithout the Wardian case, everyday economic crops such as rubber, banana, tea, and cinchona would not have thrived, as well as exotic plants such as orchidsCultural and social history of plant movement in the nineteenth centuryIllustrated with materials form Kew’s Library, Art and Archives
