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WARD’S CASES. 
Chap. IX. 
our parks and gardens with many beautiful 
exotics, which, hut for this admirable invention, 
would never have been seen beyond those countries 
to which they are indigenous. 
In a foreign country, however, even Ward’s 
cases cannot he made without some difficulty. 
The carpenter who contracted to make the frame- 
work of the cases would have nothing to do with 
the glazing, because he did not understand it. A 
Dutch carpenter, residing in Yokuhama, under- 
took to do the glazing, hut unfortunately broke his 
diamond and could not procure another to cut the 
glass ! Luckily, however, these difficulties were 
got over at last, and a sufficient number of cases 
were got ready to enable me to carry the collection 
on to China. The steam-ship ‘ England,’ Captain 
Dundas, being about to return to Shanghae, I 
availed myself of the opportunity to go over to 
that port with my collections, in order to ship them 
for England, there being as yet no means of send- 
ing them direct from Japan. Mr. Veitch had 
also put his plants on hoard the same vessel, so 
that the whole of the poop was lined with glass 
cases crammed full of the natural productions of 
Japan. Never before had such an interesting and 
valuable collection of plants occupied the deck of 
any vessel, and most devoutly did we hope that 
our beloved plants might he favoured with fair 
winds and smooth seas, and with as little salt 
water as possible — a mixture to which they are 
not at all partial, and which sadly disagrees with 
their constitutions 
