Case Studies. A Story of Plant Travel. NEW. Especially so since the nineteenth

Especially so since the nineteenth century establishment of acclimatisation societies by European settlers

and suggests suitable plants that will thrive in such conditions

ISBN 9781869661281

wounded or displaced as northern tribes pressed south

alpine complex

Case Studies. A Story of Plant Travel. NEW. Especially so since the nineteenthFelicity Jones and Mark Smith, editors. An original and artistic history of the Wardian Case (a kind of small portable glazed box). The text describes the successful part it played in the global movement of economic and garden plants. The work combines contemporary images of cased plants with historical essays. There are photographs of herbarium specimens collected in New Zealand by Banks and Solander. A very large heavy book. Massey University Press,