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A Forest in Your Luggage

The glass boxes that helped plants cross oceans

A plant is difficult luggage. It needs water, light, and protection through a voyage that may offer very little of any of them. The Wardian case helped by putting a small glass enclosure around the problem. Follow the boxes into botanical gardens, commerce, and empire. Their contents survived the crossing; what happened after arrival could be much less contained.

Inside this idea

1. 01Pack a living thing
2. 02Weather inside a box
3. 03Unloading the plants
4. 04What takes root

This is a proposed book; a complete manuscript is not available yet. The author credit is an editorial pen name for AI-generated work.