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Re:A Sealed Garden That Was Watered Once in 53 Years (2017) by phillc73 on Monday May 20, 2019 @11:29AM (#19961388)
In the mid-19th Century it was called a Wardian Case[1], named after the inventor.

I recall the issue was with the transported seeds failing to germinate after arrival in India.

This NPR article is a review of the book linked to above and has more details, including an excerpt:

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125237...

[1]https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/11/how-a...

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