Crossword-Solution: WARDIAN
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| Wardian | a. | Designating, or pertaining to, a kind of glass inclosure for keeping ferns, mosses, etc., or for transporting growing plants from a distance; as, a Wardian case of plants; -- so named from the inventor, Nathaniel B. Ward, an Englishman. |
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| type of glass container for housing delicate plants | 1 answer |
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Sentences with WARDIAN (5)
Archer and Janey, whenever they alighted at Brown's Hotel, found themselves awaited by two affectionate friends who, like themselves, cultivated ferns in Wardian cases, made macrame lace, read the memoirs of the Baroness Bunsen and had views about the occupants of the leading London pulpits.
The air ocean in which we live is a 'Wardian case,' of larger dimensions." It is found that the simple elements will not nourish the body in their natural state, but only when organized, either as vegetable or animal food; and, to the dismay of the Grahamite or vegetarian school, it is now established by chemists that animal and vegetable food contain the same elements, and in nearly the same proportions.
Then his eyes strayed over the polished floor and the dull-hued rugs, over ebony and ivory cabinets and stiff-backed chairs, to be fixed, finally, by a huge Wardian case.
What with Waltonian cases, hanging baskets, Wardian cases, &c., our ladies may adorn their parlors with _artistic_ taste with these fragrant, fragile, rainbow-hued children of Nature.
The Wardian Case has been instrumental in diffusing a love of these pursuits among all classes of society.