Dr. Luke Keogh

This is the important part of the invention.

Ward was amazed and so he decides to repeat the experiment.

While that one's sitting there, he's not just content to have one bottle closed up trying to grow plants in it.

There's more and more start to spread throughout his house and he tries different ways and they might be a bigger case that's got plants inside it and these sorts of things.

I would imagine that there were some rocks, there was a little bit of soil or moss in there.

It would have been called a hothouse at that point in time, or orangeries that were part of big castles at the time, and these sorts of things.

And one of the parts of those was to provide heat for them.

But one of the really restricting parts that a lot of people couldn't have a greenhouse at their own location was the glass was very expensive.

So glass had a tax on it.

Therefore, many people couldn't find access to these.

But you see the emergence of middle class people having greenhouses as attached to their homes as wealth increases throughout this period of time.

The next step was to say, okay, we can grow plants under glass in my home, but can I send plants long distances?

Can I send them using this method over a long sea journey?

And so they tested it.

Plants were put inside.

They were then taken onto a ship and that ship then sailed.

Longest journey then known was to Australia.

And so they sailed it to Australia.

And it's nice and high, receives lots of sunlight.

And so that was an important part of where it had to be placed.