This is a slideshow about cultures meeting, fighting, trading, and the eventual development of greenhouses.

Captain Samuel Wallis being received by Queen Oberea on the Island of Tahiti, 1767 (19th century). Scene from Samuel Wallis’s voyage of circumnavigation in HMS ‘Dolphin’, undertaken from 1766-1768. Wallis is believed to have been the first European to visit Tahiti, which he sighted on 18th June 1767.
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The Wardian case was a portable airtight greenhouse developed by Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward to protect live plant material during transportation