Fairy Terrarium Neckace headbands set beneath heavy

set beneath heavy

Published by Crown/Random House in 2009

Please allow up to two weeks for shipping

This inspirational necklace is a perfect gift

original fiction from Timothy Schaffert

Fairy Terrarium Neckace headbands set beneath heavyThe "Wardian Case" is the perfect blend of Victorian era science and whimsy. It was invented in the early 19th century when Dr. Nathaniel Ward, a British physician with a passion for natural history, noticed that some ferns that failed to grow in his London garden were sprouting quite happily in some sealed jars of soil samples collected from the countryside. Theorizing that perhaps London's notoriously polluted air might be killing the delicate ferns