Cultivation Collection

Tate & Lyle Refinery
A coastal barge sailing by the famous Tate and Lyle sugar refinery works, Plaistow Wharf, off Silvertown, North Woolwich, east London

Hop Picking into Bins
Kent hop pickers picking into bins

A Memory of a Hop Field by F. C. Twort
A bucolic scene showing hop pickers in a Kentish landscape. Date: 1935

Carrying Tea by Camel
Carrying tea by camel in Asia

Hop Pickers 1900
A group of Kentish hop pickers

French Champagne Cellars
Making champagne in the cellars of a French vineyard Date: late 19th century

Hop Pickers Tally Off
Kent hop pickers " tallying off"

The Brewer 1827
Brewers sweat and toil as they stir and brew beer and haul heavy barrels up and down a ladder next to the sweltering heat of a kiln

Hoisting Hops
Hoisting pokes of hops onto a drying platform. Despite modern advances such as mechanical hop presses, horses were still being used for hoisting the pokes (sacks). Date: 1930s

Phylloxera Vastatrix
The PHYLLOXERA VASTATRIX - the tiny insect first noticed in 1865 in southern France and which devastated vineyards for decades to follow : it attacks the plant, not the grapes

Human vegetable figure. circa 1825

Jolly Grape Pickers
A grinning group of grape pickers pose for the camera in a vineyard in Champagne, France. Date: early 1930s

Coffee Plant
Coffee plant, showing the berries, which contain the coffee beans

Hop Pickers 1907
Workers in a Kentish hop garden sorting hops from a large basket into an upturned umbrella

Desclieux / Coffee Plant
Captain Gabriel Mathieu Desclieux, a French Navy Officer, uses his water ration to save a single coffee plant which instigated the entire Martinique Coffee Industry

McNabs tree transplanter, as used in Edinburgh
McNabs tree transplanter, as used by him in the Royal Scottish Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland. Date: circa 1850

Epernay Vineyard, 1987
A champagne vineyard near Epernay. Date: 1987

Pruning Vines Spain 1511
A Catalan wine-grower prunes his vines

Limone, Lake Garda, Italy
Limone sul Garda is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy (northern Italy), on the shore of Lake Garda

Drying Hops 1906
Three men drying hops inside a Kentish oast house

St Julien, Medoc
Beycheville Saint-Julien, Medoc - a wine chateau in the Bordeaux region

Hop Tally Men 1907
Hop picking " Tally men

Seasons / February / Vines
A farmer prunes his vines

Wine Boats / Oporto River
Wine boats sailing up the Douro River at Oporto

Wine Press, Circa 1880
A wine press

Alsace Festival, 1911
Happy vineyard workers dance through the fields during the fete de vendanges (vineyard festival) in Alsace, France

Bottling at Mumm s

American Samoa - Pago Pago - production of copra
Pago Pago, Capital of American Samoa - the cultivation of Coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) for the production of copra, the dried flesh of the coconut

Farmer ploughing using two working mules Njegusi, Montenegro
A farmer ploughs the soil using two working mules to pull his plough in the village of Njegusi in the Cetinje Municipality of southern Montenegro, This is on the slopes of Mount Lovcen

Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Sedentary Lifestyle not happy
Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - A Sedentary Lifestyle is not happy! Date: circa mid-1970s

Africa. The perfect Banana (Musa paradisiaca)
History of Africa. 19th century. The perfect Banana (Musa paradisiaca). Engraving. El Congo y la Creacion del Estado Independiente de este nombre

Bombo manchego. Traditional rural architecture of La Mancha
Spain, Castile-La Mancha, Ciudad Real province. Surroundings of Tomelloso. Bombo manchego. A kind of vaulted hut made with stone labs without mortar, coming from the plowing of the vinyeards

Cultivation Paddock
This etching shows an Australian cultivation paddock, with a broad picturesque landscape set behind the horse. Date: circa 1925

AMERICAN TOBACCO GROWER
An American tobacco grower sits leaning on a barrel of the tobacco which will be sent away to poison the lives of millions of wretched victims doomed to a miserable death Date: 1871

Tea Tree, Thea Bohea, China. Date: 1820

Stages of tea production, China -- Tea Tree, Thea Bohea Loureiro. Date: 1820

Gathering the leaves of the tea plant, China. (2 of 4) Date: 1832

Final process of mixing the tea, China. (4 of 4) Date: 1832

Cultivation of the tea plant, China. (1 of 4) Date: 1832

Tea gathering in Japan. Date: 1881

Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, Cocoa Plantation, Sri Lanka
Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, Cocoa Plantation, Ceylon Sri Lanka. 1893

Unknown British town scene - with Monkey Puzzle tree. An interesting early photograph of Araucaria Arucana (Monkey Puzzle Tree) which is very slow-growing

Chinese labourer with umbrella and peasant
Chinese labourer with bamboo-and-paper umbrella and peasant in rice-straw cape, QIng Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon

Cultivation and manufacture of cocoa 1855
Cocoa plantation in the island of Grenada. Cocoa trees are planted in rows, like apple trees in an orchard. Great care was used to keep the young trees free from the quanity os small climbing

Hop-picking season in Kent 1901
Summer months were very popular for going to Kent for the annual hop-picking season. People would come from miles around to spend the summer months sleeping in primitive camps for two or three weeks

Hop-picking on the road 1858
Hop picking season in Kent, men, women and children from many distant villages and town of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, East End of London

Hop-picking resting 1858
Hop picking season in Kent, men, women and children from many distant villages and towns of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, East End of London

Gardener and greenhouse. 19th century

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