Growing Collection (page 3)

Cultivation of grapes, Madeira. Date: circa 1900s

Postcard booklet, grapefruit cluster, Texas, USA
Postcard booklet, grapefruit cluster, 64 on one branch, Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, USA. Date: 1942

Postcard booklet, southern tobacco field, USA
Postcard booklet, a southern tobacco field, Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937

Poster, Chart II, growing vegetables, WW2
Poster, Chart II, growing vegetables in winter and spring. 1940s

Poster, The Ploughing-Up Campaign in England and Wales, for the growing of crops during the Second World War. Date: early 1940s

Cutout advertisement, Hovis Bread
Cutout advertisement - Hovis, the best bread for growing children. Date: early 20th century

Firemens Farm in the Heart of the City WWII
In the centre of London near St. Giles Cripplegate, firefighter members of the N.F.S. which station was damaged in the air raids in 1940 attend a large plot, consisting of vegetable

Hops are picked in Surrey near Farnham Palace and sold at Weyhill Fair. Date: 1891

An Onion Field - Bermuda
circa 1910s

Persian Pattern

Bamboo and its uses in China 1867
Bamboo grow wild very quickly in China because of it warm climate, often rises to the height of sixty or eighty feet with a hollow stem, or even three to four inches in one day

Vintage in Medoc: Vineyards of Chateau Lafitte 1871
Vineyards of Chateau Lafitte, France. Date: 1871

AUTUMNAL TREES BY ERIE
Autumnal tints on Lake Erie, seen in a variety of plants and trees growing by the shore Date: 19th century

PIC-NIC AT HOME
A PIC-NIC IN THE DRAWING ROOM A satire on the growing habit of snacking instead of sitting round the table at formal meals Date: 1859

FRANCO-BRIT EXHIBITION
Franco-British Exhibition at Shepherds Bush, London, symbolises the growing rapprochement between Britain and France Date: 1908

Cartoon, The Tourists Guide
Cartoon, THE TOURISTS GUIDE, a satirical comment on the growing number of climbing accidents. Date: 1867

Daffodils in fields at Hale, Lancashire
Golden acres! Copious daffodils in fields at Hale, Lancashire, England. Date: 1950s

Chinese tea industry
Tea cultivation in China : general view of a plantation Date: circa 1840

Lady tending her window box 1878
A lady at an open window, tending the plants in her window box. Date: 1878

Gathering the cucumber harvest, Esher, Surrey. Although cucumbers often grow along the ground, these are growing down from the roof. Date: 1930s

Joy-land! at The Hippodrome, London
Promotional postcard for Joy-land! at The Hippodrome, London. A WW1-era revue starring Shirley Kellogg and produced by her husband Albert de Courville. 1917

Grape arbour, Los Angeles, California, USA. Date: circa 1900s

Kashmir - two male rice planters in foothills of Himalayas smile happily as they plant rice shoots Date: 1986

Author Sue Townsend - 2
Sue Townsend, 1946-2014. Writer - author of Adrian Mole books. First published The Times Date: 1988

Woman on allotment - 2
A woman bends over and plants onion sets in the well-prepared soil of her allotment in Northern England. The background shows ramshackle allotments and on the skyline is a church tower

Woman on allotment - 1
A woman bends over and plants onion sets in the well-prepared soil of her allotment in Northern England. The background shows ramshackle allotments and on the skyline is a church tower

Three tots on beach, Tenby
Three small children wearing sun hats hold hands in the sunshine and walk to the sea on the beach at Tenby, Wales. First publisdhed The Sunday Times Date: 1988

Watercress Beds, Letcombe Bassett, Oxfordshire Date: circa 1910s

Market Reports Illustrated
Lisse is a town in the Netherlands, southwest of Amsterdam. Its known for the Keukenhof garden, which has millions of spring-flowering Hyacinth bulbs. Date: 1907

WW2 poster, Grow more food, dig for victory -- wanted 500, 000 more allotment holders, for plots of land apply to your council. Date: circa 1940

Empire Marketing Board poster - cocoa pod gathering
Cocoa, Empire Marketing Board, c1927-c1933. Artist: Edward McKnight Kauffer Date: circa 1930s

Portrait of Louis Wain taken from an advertisement for Phosferine, a tonic medicine, featuring Louis Wain, the famous cat artist

Hispano-Roman amphora used to carry oil, wine or cereal. It comes from the coast of Catalonia. Roman art. Ceramics

Droxford Union Workhouse, Hampshire
A view of the Union Workhouse at Droxford, Hampshire. Some inmates can be seen at the front of the building. Cabbages are growing in the ground at the bottom of the picture

Iris Reticulata and Crocus Chrysanthus
Two spring flowers growing alongside each other. The Iris Reticulata (left), an early flowering hardy perennial of the Iridaceae family, with purple flowers

Cupid and fairy with red hearts on a Valentine postcard
Cupid and fairy with red hearts growing on a tree on a Valentine postcard -- Of my Love, the Angels in Heaven might tell. Date: circa 1890s

Cupid watering red hearts on a Valentine postcard
Cupid watering red hearts growing in a pot on a Valentine postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Cupids with red hearts on a Christmas and New Year postcard
Cupids watering red hearts on a Christmas and New Year postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Commonwealth Instiute - Diorama - Cotton growing in India
Commonwealth Instiute, London - Diorama - Cotton growing in India. Date: circa 1920s

Weeds growing by the Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany. Date: 1960s

Tobacco Growing Italy
Italy : clipping and de- leafing the tobacco plants Date: 1929

Mangrove tree sapling grows on basalt rock June sea shore near Le Prince Maurice Hotel Poste de Flacq East of Mauritius

Giant potato, Barnesville, Minnesota, USA
A giant potato at Barnesville, Minnesota, USA, a big potato-growing area. An annual potato festival is held there. Date: circa 1910

Autumn leaves of a young European Rowan tree growing in mature Scots Pine forest (Pinus sylvestris) (Sorbus aucuparia). near Ekaterinburg - Middle Ural Mountains - Russia. autumn - September

How to start an allotment during WW1
Diagram in The Sphere advising readers how to start work on a raw piece of ground in order to create an allotment. The Food Production Department was keen to get around 500

Mountainside Birch
A birch tree growing on a steep mountainside near Cwmdare, Glamorganshire, Wales. Date: 1950s

Thatched Corn Ricks
Corn ricks with neat thatched roofs on a farm in Yorkshire, England. Date: 1930s

Dig For Victory
British wartime poster encouraging the public to grow their own food

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