Growing Collection (page 8)

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

Camels and orange groves, Palestine
Camels being led along a road between orange groves in Palestine. Date: 20th century

The Life & Age of Woman
Stages of womans life from the cradle to the grave. Date: ca. 1857

Peaceful scene in cemetery
Wild flowers grow and intertwine in this peaceful cemetery scene, with a bird perched on a leaf singing, and a snail crawling along slowly below. 1925

Silhouette, Tall Oaks from Little Acorns Grow

Tamarisk Bushes
Tamarisk bushes growing on the beach at Goring, Sussex, England. These bushes are often planted in exposed places, to form wind breaks and to prevent erosion. Date: 1950s

Garoet, Indonesia - paddy fields for cultivating rice Date: 1927

Mescha - Small village in Upper Galilee with a Russian population - a wine-growing area today as it was then! Date: circa 1910s

Santa Anita Canal, Mexico, a place used for chinampa-based agriculture. Chinampa is a method of ancient Mesoamerican agriculture which used small

Tulip Fields
Tulips growing in the fields o Lincolnshire, England. Date: 1930s

Meadowsweet is a common fen plant, normally found growing amongst other tall herbs. From June to October it is covered in clumps of small, sweet- smelling white flowers. Date: 1930s

Three Arab Gardeners - Morocco Date: circa 1910s

Sunflower Fields
Sunflowers growing in the fields of Lincolnshire, England. Date: 1930s

Ancient Oak Trees
Relics of Sherwood Forest - there are acres of these strange, twisted and mis- shapen old oak trees still growing in Thoresby Park, Dukeries, Notts. England. Date: 1950s

Testing Seed Potatoes
A man and woman testing seed potatoes, Germany. Date: early 1930s

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

Tomato Hothouse
Tomatoes growing in a greenhouse, four weeks after planting. Date: 1950s

Greenhouse Nursery
Growing chrysanthemums in a greenhouse. Date: 1930s

ASH TREE
An ash tree growing on Keuper Waterstones formation at Haughton, Nottinghamshire, England. Date: 1930s

Village on a hill near Gaza, with cacti, WW1
A native village on a hill near Gaza during the First World War. Cacti are growing in the foreground. Date: circa 1917

Man in vegetable garden
A man working in a vegetable garden with rows of large onions. circa 1940s

Growing rhubarb
A lady gardener pictured with an impressive harvest of rhubarb. The fruit bushes behind her look healthy too. c.1945

Record-breaking cauliflower
A gigantic record-brealing cauliflower and the very proud gardener responsible for this remarkably-leaved vegetable! Date: circa 1894

Rail car transporting giant cabbages Date: 1910

Rail car transporting giant Bellflower apples Date: 1910

Carload of Mammoth Navel Oranges
A frankly ridicuolous carload of Mammoth American Navel Oranges! Date: 1909

Californian farmer with an immense watermelon Date: circa 1910

Rail car transporting a giant lemon Date: 1910

Rail car transporting a giant pear Date: 1910

Rail car transporting giant tomatoes Date: 1910

Small girl with prize winning celery
A little girl grins with delight as she is dwarfed by some gigantic celery she is holding, along with a first prize certificate, presumably for said celerys impressive proportions. c.1947

Panoramic view of Afyon, Turkey. Afyon - know known as Afyon Karahisar - capital of Afyon Province in Western Turkey. Growing area for Turkish poppies, used mostly for medicinal Opium

FISH & CHIPS 1967
Two teenage lads, still in their school uniforms, scoff down fish and chips wrapped in newspapers, after building up healthy appetites playing a round of golf after school. Date: 1967

People working in a vegetable garden
People working in a neatly laid out vegetable garden in 18th century France. Date: circa 1760

Boy looking through a window on a rainy day
A bored little boy peers through a window pane on a rainy day

Two workers picking cocoa pods, Jamaica
Two workers picking cocoa pods in Jamaica

Apricot trees growing up a house wall

Fountain and Wisteria at Paddockhurst, West Sussex
View of a fountain in the garden at Paddockhurst, near Selsfield Common, West Sussex. The house dates from the 17th century, and is now used as a school

Terrace at Paddockhurst, West Sussex
View of the terrace at Paddockhurst, near Selsfield Common, West Sussex. The house dates from the 17th century, and is now used as a school

Double page spread in a diary for 5-10 September
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 5-10 September. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Derelict miners cottage, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
A derelict miners cottage in Pembrokeshire, South Wales. The roof has gone, and plants are growing in the stonework

Solanum Lycopersicum (Tomato) Sunrise, a red fruit (often regarded as a vegetable) of the Solanaceae family, seen here growing and ripening on the stalk

Saxifraga Cotyledon on a mountainside
Saxifraga Cotyledon, a perennial of the Saxifragaceae family (commonly known as saxifrages or stone breakers because of their ability to grow in the cracks between rocks)

Dryas Octopetala (Mountain Avens, White Dryas)
Dryas Octopetala (Mountain Avens, White Dryas, White Dryad), an arctic-alpine flowering plant of the Rosaceae family, with creamy coloured petals. Seen here growing in a rocky setting

Prunus (Flowering Cherry Tree) in blossom
Prunus (Flowering Cherry Tree), several ornamental trees planted near water, laden with pink and white blossom. Daffodils are growing at their roots

Juniperus Communis (Common Juniper), a woody plant of the Cupressaceae family. Seen here is the Prostrata variety, a low-growing shrub covering some rocks

Vegetable grounds, NIPRCC East Harling, Norfolk
Boys tending the vegetable grounds at the East Harling, Norfolk, branch of the National Institutions for Persons Requiring Care and Control

Little Gardener by Muriel Dawson
A little blonde girl in a red dress waters her seedlings with a small watering can

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