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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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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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A new orchard & garden: or, The best way for planting, graffing, and to make any ground good for a rich orchard ... With the country house-wifes garden for herbs of common use ... As also the husbandry of bees, with their several uses and annoyances: all being the experience of forty and eight years of labour; and now the sixth time corrected, and much enlarged, / By William Lawson. Whereunto is newly added the art of propagating plants, with the true ordering of all manner of fruits, in their gathering, carrying home, and preservation.
William LawsonDate: 1676
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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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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.
Hans BolDate: 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.
Isaac CruikshankDate: 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.
Henry Noel HumphreysDate: [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.
William DaniellDate: 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.
Guido ReniDate: 1646Reference: 26653i
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A pear tree (Pyrus domestica): flowering stem, fruit and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1796.
James SowerbyDate: 1 October 1796Reference: 25138i
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A tree branch with large blue fruit, also some young leaves. Watercolour.
Reference: 23048i
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Lemon tree (Citrus limon): branch with fruit and flowers. Charcoal drawing by E. Shepperd, 1894.
Shepperd, E. P.Date: 1894Reference: 26760i
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A woman breast feeding a child and plucking a fruit from an abundant tree, two of her other children are also with her. Engraving by J. Frey, 1732, after F. Albani.
Francesco AlbaniDate: 1732Reference: 17437i