Growers Collection

Wassailing Apple Trees
In Devon and Somerset, apple growers wassail orchards on 17 January, with songs and a bucket of hot cider; a tree is lightly sprinkled, then the wassailers drink the rest

Leek Show winners
Two prize winners at a Leek Show displaying their impressive vegetables alongside a couple of equally impressive mantel clocks, presumably their prizes

Small growers selling their cotton, St Vincent, Caribbean Date: early 1900s

Small growers selling their cotton in St Vincent early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Advert, Bell & Bieberstedt, Seed Growers, Leith, Scotland
Advert for Bell & Bieberstedt, Seed Growers, Leith, Scotland. 1905

Nutmeg plantation 1868
Island of Penang, in the Indian Ocean by the Strait of Malacca, consisted of a vast plantation of fruit trees of which the nutmeg was run by an English enterprise

Label design, Crown Jewel citrus fruit, Florida, USA
Label design, Crown Jewel citrus fruit, Lake Wales, Polk County, Florida, USA, Citrus Growers Association. circa early 20th century

Label design, Prince of Wales Citrus Fruit, Lake Wales Citrus Growers Association, Florida, USA. early 20th century

French / German Champagne
While French saboteurs destroy vineyards, German growers sell fake champagne for huge profits. Date: 1911

Great hop-pickers demonstration 1908
Dense crowds in Trafalgar square, demonstrating against a threatened industry of foreign hop imports, large crowds gathered in Trafalgar Square, London, estimated forthy to fifty thousand people

The flower farmers of Britain 1938
Picking the blooms at Rosenvale, Penzance, where the early spring flowers are grown extensively in greenhouses. Most of the Scilly Isles are employed in the flower industry

Vine Growers Queen
Mademoiselle Emile Langlor, the Queen of the Charente vine growing district, in her striking, enormous, lace hat! Date: 1930s

Samos - Tobacco Growers
Tobacco Growers sew leaves together for drying

Saving Vines Beaujolais
French wine-growers in the Beaujolais area bombard menacing clouds with a mortar, to cause premature precipitation of rain before it freezes into hail

Wine Workers Riot 1907
French wine growers riot at Beziers against doctored wine

Kaffirs shoot at Storm
Kaffirs fire their arrows at storm clouds in hope of saving their crops : French wine growers try similar methods

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