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A species of Sapotaceae: branch with flowers and fruit, separate flower and sections of fruit and seeds. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1683]Reference: 15951i
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Jak tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus) with fruit in the Society Islands. Pen drawing.
Reference: 22094i
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A vegetable patch in the back garden of a cottage in the countryside. Watercolour and gouache by Mary Lorraine, 1967.
Lorraine, Mary, active approximately 1967.Date: 23.1.67 [23 January 1967]Reference: 3001750i
Part of: Adamson Collection
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Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.
Date: [1671]Reference: 24654i
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Elephant apple (Limonia acidissima L.): branch with flowers and fruit, leaf and seeds and cross-section of fruit.
Date: [1683]Reference: 15866i
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A cudweed plant (Gnaphalium species), mandrake plant (Mandragora officinarum) and breadfruit tree (Artocarpus atilis). Coloured engraving, c. 1827.
Date: [1827]Reference: 27951i
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Mango (Mangifera indica L.): branch with flowers, fruit and leaves, cross-section of fruit and flower. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1683]Reference: 15796i
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A border of plants from a Roman garden in the 1st century A.D., with the main plants labelled. Photograph.
Reference: 26632i
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A border of trees, palms and herbaceous plants from a Roman garden in the 1st century A.D. Coloured photograph.
Date: 1891Reference: 26629i
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The story of "Watch him, Pincher". Coloured magic lantern slides.
Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]Reference: 754921i
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A new method of propagating fruit-trees, and Flowering Shrubs: where by the common kinds may be raised more expeditiously; and several curious exotics increased, which will not take root from cuttings or layers. Confirmed by repeated and successful Experience. By Thomas Barnes, Gardener to William Thomson, Esq; at Elsham in Lincolnshire.
Barnes, Thomas, gardener.Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]
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The month September and the sign of Libra, represented by people gathering fruit from trees and the parable of the barren fig tree. Engraving by A. Collaert after H. Bol, 1585.
Bol, Hans, 1534-1593.Date: 1585Reference: 46399i
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Separate pictures of garden fruit, flowers, vegetables, birds, dogs and two monkeys dressed as gardeners. Coloured etchings, 18th century.
Reference: 26643i
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A stone fruit tree, possibly a plum (Prunus species): fruiting branch and seed. Watercolour.
Reference: 23100i
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Three men carousing beneath a mulberry tree, with verses of a song comparing the life of humans to the life of a tree. Etching after I. Cruikshank, 1808.
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811Date: 1 March 1808Reference: 26292i
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Rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum L.): fruiting branch and separate numbered inflorescence and seeds. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c. 1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
Hoola, Berthe van Nooten.Date: [1885]Reference: 16390i
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A fruiting breadfruit tree (Artocarpus altilis). Photograph.
Reference: 28166i
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Three British fruit trees, sloe (Prunus spinosa), wild cherry (Prunus avium) and bird cherry (Prunus padus). Coloured lithograph, c. 1856, after H. Humphreys.
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.Date: [1856]Reference: 24636i
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A pear (Pyrus species): flowering branch. Watercolour.
Reference: 23398i
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Breadfruit tree (Artocarpus altilis) in tropical landscape. Coloured aquatint by W. Daniell, c. 1809, after himself.
Daniell, William, 1769-1837.Date: 10 April 1809Reference: 21019i
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Two banana plants (Musa species) and a date palm tree. Coloured engraving, c. 1827.
Date: [1827]Reference: 27948i
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Genoa, with the aid of Arethusa, Alcimus, and Cosmus, introduces the lemon tree into Italy, thanks to the warm air of the Ligurian coast. Engraving by G.F. Greuter after G. Reni.
Reni, Guido, 1575-1642.Date: 1646Reference: 26653i
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A pear tree (Pyrus domestica): flowering stem, fruit and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1796.
Sowerby, James, 1757-1822.Date: 1 October 1796Reference: 25138i
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A new method of propagating fruit-trees, and Flowering Shrubs: whereby the common kinds may be raised more expeditiously; and several curious exotics increased, which will not take root from cuttings or layers. Confirmed by repeated and successful Experience. By Thomas Barnes, Gardener to William Thomson, Esq; at Elsham in Lincolnshire.
Barnes, Thomas, gardener.Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]
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A tree branch with large blue fruit, also some young leaves. Watercolour.
Reference: 23048i