Take for example the Wardian case, named after its inventor, Dr Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward. Dr Ward managed to grow a grass seedling in an air-tight jar, prompting him to fashion a receptacle in which to ...

The problem of shipment was overcome only with the development by Nathaniel Ward of sealed boxes with glass walls and tops that allowed seedlings to survive adverse conditions over periods of ...

In 1829 Dr Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward's medical practice was near St Katherine's Dock. A keen naturalist, he grew plants in his back yard but the air was heavily polluted from the factory chimneys ...