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  • Bean plant (Phaseolus sp.): flowering stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured etching after F.A. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Grape vine with fruit and leaves. Pencil drawing.
  • Two aubergine fruits (Solanum melongena) and an umbelliferous plant stem. Watercolour.
  • The flat peach of China (Prunus persica cv.): fruiting branch, flowers and cut fruit. Coloured etching by W. Hooker, c. 1820.
  • Large fruited granadilla (Passiflora macrocarpa): flowering stem, flower and outline of fruit. Coloured etching.
  • Lotus root (Nelumbo nucifera): part of rhizome. Watercolour.
  • Corn Salad (Valerianella olitoria Pollich.): entire flowering plant with separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Papaya, pawpaw or melon tree (Carica papaya L.): flowering and fruiting tree with flowers and fruit lying on the ground beneath. Etching by G. D. Ehret, 1742, after himself.
  • A branch of a Prunus cultivar bearing both peaches and nectarines. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1810.
  • Separate pictures of garden fruit, flowers, vegetables, birds, dogs and two monkeys dressed as gardeners. Coloured etchings, 18th century.
  • White lupin (Lupinus albus): entire flowering plant with pod. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • Sea buckthorn plant (Hippophae rhamnoides) and nine types of leech (Hirudo species). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1811.
  • Birds and plants from Persia, including turtledoves, senna plant, terpentine plant, pomegranate flowers and tree and pumpkin . Line engraving by M. Pool after C. de Bruin, 1704.
  • A cherry (Prunus cultivar) and strawberry (Fragaria cultivar): fruiting stems. Coloured etching, c. 1789.
  • Jak or jack tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.) with man collecting the fallen fruit. Engraving by J. Storer after J. Forbes, 1767.
  • African peach (Sarcocephalus latifolius): fruiting and flowering stem with section of fruit. Coloured steel engraving by W. Say, c. 1812, after B. Cotton.
  • A radish (Raphanus species): root and leaves. Watercolour.
  • The Black Corinth grape (Vitis vinifera cv.): fruiting branch. Coloured etching by W. Clark, c. 1835, after W. Hooker.
  • A "Cox's" Orange Pippin apple (Malus sylvestris cv.). Coloured zincograph by J. Andrews, c. 1861, after himself.
  • Peach (Prunus species): fruiting branch with halved fruit. Colour aquatint by F. Corsi, c. 1817, after D. del Pino.
  • A galled tree (Mimosa cinerea), a Jamaica pepper tree (Pimenta dioica) and a Turkey rhubarb plant (Rheum palmatum). Coloured engraving, c. 1827.
  • Fame flower (Talinum fruticosum (L.) Juss.): two sections of the flowering stem with separate flower and fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Fig (Ficus species): branch with sections of fruit. Colour aquatint by G. Pera, 1827, after I. Bozzolini, 1826.
  • Little mallow (Malva parviflora L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Five plums (Prunus domestica) in a bed of leaves. Chromolithograph, c. 1877, after W. H. Fitch.
  • Aubergine or egg plant (Solanum melongena): fruits of different varieties. Chromolithograph, c. 1870, after H. Briscoe.
  • A plant (Eugenia corymbosa Lam.): branch with flowers and fruit, separate flowers and fruit and section of fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • A peach plant (Prunus persica): flowering and fruiting stems. Coloured zincograph by C. Chabot, c. 1876, after W. Fitch.
  • Japanese pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata): tear-drop shaped fruit. Watercolour.