APPENDIX A. 
401 
(A, p. xvi.) 
HAS kindly permitted me to 
extract the following admirable 
chapter from his valuable treatise 
‘ On the Growth of Plants in 
Closely-glazed Cases.’ 
m On the Imitation of the Natural Con- 
ditions of Plants in Closely-glazed 
Cases. By N. B. Ward, Esq. 
The science of Botany, in consequence of the perusal of the works of the 
immortal LinuEeus, had been my recreation from my youth up ; and the earliest 
object of my ambition was to possess an old wall covered with ferns and moss- 
es. To obtain this end, I built up some rock-work in the yard at the back of 
my house, and placed a perforated pipe at the top, from which water trickled 
