TERRARIUMS PUT YOUR GARDEN UNDER GLASS.(HOUSE-HOME)

Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) | November 9, 2003 | Copyright

Byline: NANCY O'DONNELL Special to the Times Union

This may be one of those columns you save in your kids-on-vacation notebook, or it may be the perfect gift for your little gardener to make for grand- parents. For any reason that tickles your fancy, terrariums are fun projects for kids and adults.

We owe the whole idea of a garden in a jar to a London physician named Nathaniel Ward. He discovered, quite by accident, the first terrarium in 1827. While studying cocoons in a sealed glass container, he noticed a few plants, particularly a fern, growing very ...

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