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Market garden produceA selection of market vegetables including artichokes, displayed in baskets in front of greenhouses and vegetable plots
Produce from around the EmpireUnidentified illustration but possibly for an Empire Marketing Board poster, featuring people from around the world, standing under a Union Jack flag and surrounded by a wide range of exotic produce
Fruit stall at Christmas, Funchal, Madeira, PortugalAerial view of a colourful fruit stall in the local market in Funchal, Madeira, on the night before Christmas eve (23 December) during the annual Noite de Mercado dos Lavradores (workers market night)
Market Traders - Covent GardenMarket Traders with their carts and crates and boxes of fruit and vegetables. Covent Garden, Central London
The Tatler Summer Number 1957Jolly front cover design for The Tatlers Summer Number showing two women in traditional, but unspecified Mediterranean or European dress carrying baskets of fruit and flowers
Young woman in 1960s interiorA young woman sits reading a magazine in a typically 1960s interior. The garden outside is covered in snow
Egyptian Orange Seller with hand cart shouts out the nature of his wares to everyone within earshot
Selection and packing of dates at Nefta, TunisiaThe sorting / selection and packing into cases of dates at Nefta, Tunisia
Lugano - Switzerland - MarketSection of the Marketplace at Pessina Street, Lugano, Switzerland
Packing Bananas - Las Palmas - Gran CanariaPackaging bananas on the street at Las Palmas, the principle city of the Spanish Municipality of Gran Canaria, one of the Canary Islands
Romanian Fruit SellerA young Romanian boy in National costume carrying two large baskets filled with fruit (including melons, figs and grapes)
Moorish girl selling oranges - AlgeriaA young Moorish girls sitting on some steps and selling oranges. She wears a very tired and bored expression
Algeria - Date MarketA Date Market in the South of Algeria
A London CosterA London street coster, with his cart of fruit. A veritable cornucopia, wonderfully displayed on a white cloth and as spectacularly opulent in its variety, as the coster is dour in face!
Street scene, Constantinople
Apple Salesman with a gigantic pannier - TurkeyApple seller standing alongside his large pannier, filled to the brim with fruit. The weight of this woven backpack must have been immense
Constantinople - Fruit VendorConstantinople - A happy fruit vendor, standing next to a well
Poster depicting Malayan pineapplesPoster for the Empire Marketing Board, depicting the market garden of the tropics -- Malayan pineapples
Poster with a view of JaffaPoster for the Empire Marketing Board, showing a view of Jaffa with camels carrying boxes of oranges
Sponge, nuts and fig Sellers - turkeyItinerant street vendors of Sponges, Figs and Nuts in Constantinople, Turkey
Niagara Peninsula - Peaches for exportCanada - province of Ontario - The Niagara Peninsula - a microclimate, where a wide variety of fruit and vegetables (which could not be grown in any other area of Canada) are grown
The fruit pickerA humble fruit picker tends to a fruit tree
The Sweet Waters of Asia Minor, Constantinople, set within a border of a raspberry plant with a ladybird on one of the leaves
Strawberry Tasting in a ShopA man covers a womans eyes with his hands while feeding her a strawberry; the gentleman with the punnet of strawberries stands at the open door
Izmir, Turkey - The Sorting of FigsFig sorting at a depot Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey. A very traditional scene in the main fig-producing region in Turkey
Poster advertising Cannes, FrancePoster advertising Cannes, the town of elegant sports (not to mention the famous film festival). A well to do lady sits on a bench, no doubt resting from her golfing exertions
Picnic in IranDiplomatic staff (both British and Iranian) enjoy a picnic. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts
Fijian Man and Jackfruit TreeA Fijian Man and the impressive fruit of the Jackfruit Tree
High Parsi Priest - IndiaThe High Priest of the Parsis (Parsees) - the Zoroastrians - performing a religious ceremony
T. Lomath Jnr. - 14 Allington Street, Pimlico, LondonThe shop of T. Lomath Jnr. 14 Allington Street, Pimlico, London - a Fruiterer and Greengrocer
GooseberriesAngler Leveller Whinhams Industry
PLUMSCount Altanns Gage Grand Duke Green Gage Early Orleans Gisbornes monarch, The Czar
NECTARINESLord Napier (Rivers) Humboldt (Rivers) Dryden (Rivers)
RaspberriesRivers Hornet Sweet Yellow Antwerp Baumforths Seedling
PEARSFondante d Automne Louise Bonne of Jersey Beurre d Aremberg Glou Morceau
Barberry / Berberrybarberries, aka berberries
Alpine Strawberries (these are probably what we would call Wild Strawberries)
GRAPESDuke of Buccleuch Lady Downes Seedling Gros Colman
CURRANTSVictoria (red currant) White Dutch Black Naples (black currant)
NECTARINEPine Apple Nectarine (Hows that for a confusing name !)
PLUMSJefferson Victoria Coes Golden Drop Diamond Ponds Seedling Autumn Compote
PLUMSEarly Transparent Gage Rivers Early Prolific
PEARSPitmaston Duchess Durondeau
PEARSSummer Beurre d Aremberg Bwurre Diel
APRICOTSRoyal Grosse Peche Large Early Montgamet Date: 1892
PEACHESAlexander Rivers Early York, with blossom
PEARSCatillac Josephine de Maines Marechal de Cour
CHERRIESMorello Late Black Bigarreau Bigarreau Noir de Gueben Mayduke
