Cultivation Collection (page 4)

Sugar Plantation / Diderot
Showing the function and layout of a sugar plantation in the French West Indies Date: circa 1760

Coffee Plantation / Brazil
A coffee plantation in Southern Brazil Date: 1879

Indian Tea Plantation
Hoeing between the plants on an Indian tea plantation Date: 1911

Ceylon Tea Picking
Picking tea, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Date: 1910

Rice cultivation in Manila, Philippines Date: 1857

Cigar makers demonstraion in Havana
In Havana, Cuba, the cigar- makers demonstrate in protest against the mechanisation of their trade Date: 1928

Chinese tea industry
Tea cultivation in China : processing on a plantation Date: circa 1840

A large Stove Conservatory. Date: 1873

Cultivation of beer. Steeping, couching and flooring malt Date: 1830s

Scene in Monte Vista Valley, California, USA
Scene in Monte Vista Valley, Los Angeles County, California, USA, showing a ranch, orchards, and the San Gabriel Mountains. Date: circa 1920

Italian Vintage
ITALY The vintage in Tuscany, near Firenze Date: 1894

Wine Cultivation Italy
ITALY The vintage in the Casentino - a district in Toscana, about 40 km NE of Firenze Date: 1905

Hyacinth farm with windmill and canal, Netherlands. Date: circa 1910

Conscientious objectors on Dartmoor
Conscientious objectors at Princetown Prison working on the Prince of Waless Duchy of Cornwall Estate (which included the prison)

Potato farmers waiting for collectors. Kitulo National Park, Tanzania, Africa

Destruction of rainforest: preparation for oil-palm plantation which replaces rainforest in a river-valley, (Elaeis guineensis). Sabah, Borneo; Malaysia; June

Oil palm fruits are piled on a road-side along one of the oil-palm plantations (Elaeis guineensis). Labuk Bay, Sabah, Borneo; Malaysia; June

Allotments in Fleet Street, London, WW1
Quite possibly the innermost allotment in London, a plot between Fleet Street and Fetter Lane cultivated by two sisters, the Misses Kersey, where they grew cabbages, cauliflowers, beetroots

Growing food in Chancery Lane, WW1
Mr Hubert Hall, resident officer of the Public Record Office in Chancery Lane, pictured hard at work in the gardens of the old Rolls House, where

Union workhouse at Nantwich, Cheshire
A view of the Union workhouse at Nantwich. The grounds of the institution are being used for the cultivation of vegetables. Date: Date unknown

British soldier working on the land, WW1
A British soldier driving a plough during the First World War. Owing to the lateness of the years sowing in 1916, due to bad weather and shortage of labour

Women working on a tobacco farm, Norfolk, WW1
Women workers gathering the harvest on the tobacco farm at Methwold, Norfolk in 1915. Picture 1 shows them tying and looping tobacco to be placed on stays

Forcing the Murphies by Heath Robinson
Endeavouring to open the eyes of seed potatoes before sowing - a silly horticultural idea by William Heath Robinson. Date: 1918

West Indies sugar plantation
A sugar plantation in the West Indies, showing cultivation and harvesting of sugar cane, as well as a horse-powered sugar grinding mill. Date: 19th century

Home Winemaking
Winemaking at home : cupping the wine must after fermentation. Date: 1950s

Watercress Cultivation
Watercress cultivation : planting the cress. Date: 1950s

Grape Pickers 1930S
Grape pickers in Champagne, France. Date: early 1930s

Old Women Grape Pickers
French peasant women harvesting grapes in the Champagne region, France. Date: early 1930s

Grape Pickers in Love
A young couple laden with baskets of freshly picked grapes, looking very happy and in love, Champagne, France. Date: early 1930s

Royal Grape Vines
A man harvesting grapes, cutting them from the Royal vines at Hampton Court, England. Date: early 1930s

Model Hop Picker
A Swedish girl hop picker. Date: early 1930s

Harvesting Carnations
A girl pushing a wheelbarrow of freshly harvested carnations, Vence, France. Date: early 1930s

California, USA - A large Orange, ripe for the picking Date: circa 1910s

Fresno, California, USA - drying figs in the hot sun. Date: circa 1910s

Fields of Strawberries and Irrigation system California, USA
Fields of Strawberries and Irrigation system. Farm of E.W. Eaton of Watsonville, California, USA. Date: circa 1910s

Flower Culture - Scilly - A Packing House Date: circa 1910

Worm Farm - Japan - Straw Layers in which the worms are kept. Date: circa 1910s

Vine cultivation (viticulture), II. Illustration by Christian Friedrich Boetius, from Johann Matthias Gesner, Scriptores rei rusticae veteres Latini: Cato, Varro, Columella, Palladius Date: 1773-1774

Vine cultivation (viticulture). Illustration by Christian Friedrich Boetius, from Johann Matthias Gesner, Scriptores rei rusticae veteres Latini: Cato, Varro, Columella, Palladius Tab. I

Coconut palms, Papeete, Tahiti, Society Islands
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Plantation. Ovalau Island, Fiji
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

The Governors Kitchen Garden, Bermuda 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Petunia hybrida, petunia
Close-up of a cultivated petunia flower

Soldiers in grounds, 1917 at the Natural History Museum, Lon
During World War I a war farm was established at the eastern end of the grounds, tended by staff and convalescent soldiers

General concepts of Horticulture Ornament
Plate 52 from Le Regne Vegetal. Atlas, Vol 14. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

The Admirals Garden, Clarence Cove, Bermuda 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Thubo tree, Montevideo, Uruguay
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Gardeners with bonsai
Gardeners going to a fair with bonsai or dwarf trees. Page 14 from The Garden of Japan, 1896 by F. T. Piggott

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