Wardian case
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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 gre
Four distinct styles of Wardian cases
Wardian case - Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam - July 2011
Robert Fortune
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Robert Fortune was a Scottish botanist, plant hunter, and traveller, best known for introducing around 250 new ornamental plants, mainly from China, but also Japan, into the gardens of Britain, Austra
Wardian case
…to the new Wardian cases. More importantly, the Wardian case unleashed a revolution in the mobility of commercially important plants. In the 1840s, Robert Fortune used Wardian cases to ship 20,000 tea plants to British India, smuggling them out of Shanghai, China, to begin the tea plantations of Assam. In 1860…
The remote Wuyi Mountains in Fujian Province, one of the important tea regions to which Fortune travelled.