Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward (* 1791; "† 1868) were an English physician. He discovered 1834 that plants in closed glass containers in their own evaporation humidity prosper in the best way. Thus lovers a miniature jungle of tropical plants could put on themselves and it developed the plant breeding in greenhouses.

Its invention was used under the name Ward' box famous and starting from 1835 on the botanischen discovery and collecting journeys by plant hunters, in order to be able to transport plants intact also several months by ship.

According to Meyers Konservationslexikon of 1854 it is one

"Mechanism for transporting and to the culture of plants under otherwise unfavorable conditions, consists of a flat metallic, well painted bottom part, on which a metallic rack rises for the admission from glass plates. The latters form the side panels and the cover of the box. One fills, puts the bottom part, which possesses some tariff a high edge, with earth into these the seeds or the plants, begiesst and closes then the box completely. The plants prosper excellently, because they are protected and sufficiently provided with humidity against dust and schroffem temperature change, since the water can never evaporate. For tropical plants easily the suitable temperature can be manufactured with the help of a small oil or Spirituslampe. In England and in more recent time several times also with us the Ward box in elegant equipment for the culture of more tender plants in the room are used. The services, which they carry out with the removal of plants, are important. Fortune used it for the transport of many thousand dte plants into the Himalaja, to Virginia and California, hate Karl with its assistance of from America to Java transplanted. See Ward, Observations on the growth OF plants into closely glazed cases (2. Aufl., Lond. 1854). "

In "being enough house "of the Orangerie in the park Belvedere in Weimar is the Ward' sche box in put to see to modern Design.

Related links

• Biography, English.
• Ward' box, in the horticulture museum Erfurt

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