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...It’s ironic, of course, given that the terrarium emerged from the “Wardian case” — 19th-century explorer and horticulturalist Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward invented the device to safely bring exotic plants back...
...As Nero drifts towards tyranny, Nathaniel Curtis’s gentle, guileless Britannicus — who gives the play its title but has no power — doesn’t stand a chance. ★★★★☆ To June 25, lyric.co.uk Girl on an Altar...
...Having spent years struggling to grow plants on the windowsills of his smog-enveloped east London home, Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward eventually admitted defeat and moved to the then-leafy village of Clapham to...
...Named after Nathaniel Ward, a 19th-century doctor and amateur botanist, these were vitrines or mini-greenhouses to protect delicate exotic species on long journeys....
...The incumbent, Richard Ward, is leaving Lloyd’s at the end of the year. The people cautioned on Sunday that the Canopius deal and Ms Beale’s proposed appointment at Lloyd’s were not confirmed....
...Nathaniel Parker’s Henry is unexpectedly susceptible but clearly, in Wolsey’s words, “always believes what he says . . . at the time he’s saying it”....
...The greatest single innovation was a glass case invented by Nathaniel Ward, a doctor in London’s East End, in the 1830s. His simple design made it possible for seedlings to survive long sea journeys....
...The Mayor’s Tongue By Nathaniel Rich Chatto & Windus £11.99 , 310 pages FT Bookshop price: £9.59 If ambition alone wins prizes, Nathaniel Rich’s mantelpiece should be creaking by the end of the year....
...But the Washington lobbyist was channelling Nathaniel Hawthorne’s heroine in The Scarlet Letter this week when, in recognition of her status as an outcast at the Democratic national convention, she wore...
...In the 1910s, swamps north of St Claude Avenue were drained and the Industrial Canal was constructed in 1923, resulting in the growth of the Lower Ninth Ward....
...He tells me about the wine merchant William Prest and solicitor Nathaniel Creswick, the club’s co-founders....
...This unassuming container, he explains, is a Wardian case, a mini-greenhouse designed in 1836 by Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward to protect exotic plants on their journeys from around the world....
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