Seed Collection (page 4)

Two robins and a blue tit on a greetings card
Two robins and a blue tit in a garden on a greetings card. Date: circa 1900s

Women police officers in new Hartnell uniform, London
Two women police officers (WPS Josie Seed and WPS Marjorie McIntyre) in the newly designed Norman Hartnell uniform, introduced in 1968 to try to encourage recruitment. Date: late 1960s

Moreton Bay chestnut seed pod
Castanospermum australe, Moreton Bay chestnut seed pod collected in Queensland, Australia in 1909 Date: 1909

Vintage seed packet: Candytuft
A beautiful Candytuft seed packet from the Burts Seeds Company, New York. Date: c. 1910

Vintage radish seed packet
A radish seed packet from the Card Seed Company, New York. Date: c. 1910

Vintage tomato seed packet
A tomato seed packet from the Card Seed Company, New York Date: c. 1910

Vintage seed packet: Pansy
A beautiful Pansy Royal Mixture seed packet from the Burts Seeds Company, New York. Date: c. 1910

Rafia Palm Tree - seed (Raphia farinifera). Kosi Bay, South Africa

Sausage Tree (Kigelia pinnata). Ruaha National Park - Tanzania - Africa

Harpactes fasciatus, Malabar trogon
Plate 30, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Diospyros sp. ebony tree
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Oryza sativa, rice
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Lens esculenta, lentil
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Balanites aegyptiaca, desert date or bito tree
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Alethopteris lonchitica, fossil seed fern
Shown here is a frond of the seed fern Alethopteris, specimen originating from Carboniferous rocks near Barnsley, England

Pericopsis mooniana, or Nandu Wood
Pericopsis mooniana (Nandu Wood, Nedun Tree), also known as Dalbergia lanceolaria, Dalbergia mooniana, Derris ponapensis, Ormosia villamilii, and Pericopsis ponapensis

Sedum Turkestanicum (Sedum Ewersii) of the Crassulaceae family. Seen here in the frost, with seed pods visible

Native Doctor - Sierra Leone. Checking a diagnosis by the means of the placement of a set of small stones of seeds

Manchester, England - Market Place. Date: circa 1909

Fiddle Sowing - a close up of above of the man using the fiddle sower and the girl leaning over the bucket of seed in a ploughed field. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Cyathea brownii - Watercolour by Franz Bauer, 1832. Paper, ink, watercolour. Bauer Unit, Original Drawings by Francis Bauer for Hooker & Bauers Genera Filicum No. 9. Date: 1832

A fancy dress queen of the vegetable kingdom
Miss L Keen of Hemel Hempstead appearing in a costume representing the various vegetables and flowers grown from Carters famous seeds

Eighteenth century. Farmer with a seed drill. Colored engraving

Fairies of the Garden - The Bluebell. 1903

Book of Trades, The Husbandman. 1841

Spray of leaves and a bee on a Christmas card
Spray of red, blue and green leaves and a bee on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

French Seed Drill
French seed drill modified from Tull and Duhamel Date: 1760

English International football team 1922-1923. Back row: Osborne, Moss, Taylor, Grimsdell, Harrow. Front row: Mercer, Smith, Seed, Wilson, Chambers, Williams. Date: 1922-1923

View of Wijnstraat, Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherlands
View of Wijnstraat (Wine Street), Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherlands. Date: circa 1910s

Man and boy, seed drill, field near Plymouth, Devon
Man and boy with horse and seed drill in a field near Plymouth, Devon. circa 1960s

Vegetable crops at Gordon Boys Home, Woking, Surrey
Promotional card for seed company F.W. Benham showing boys harvesting crops they have grown at Gordon Boys Home, Woking. Date: 1906

Carduus nutans, musk thistle
Watercolour and ink on paper, c. mid-19th century by Ellen Hawkins (fl.1821-1868).Held in the Library and Archives

Fossil of Neuropteris grandiflora, an extinct seed fern from the Carboniferous period.. Handcolored lithograph from Dr. F.A

Fruit, blossom, leaves and seed of the Noblesse peach, Prunus persica.. Handcolored illustration by J.T. Hart at Mr. Lees nursery, Hammersmith, from Charles McIntoshs Flora and Pomona 1829

Leaves and seeds of bur-reed, Sparganium racemosum Huds.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Root and seeds of cardamom, Elettaria cardamomum Maton.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Purple seed and leaves of the long pepper, Piper longum.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Yellow flowers, root, seeds and leaves of Cheilocostus speciosus, Amomum arboreum Lour.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants

Germinating seed of the radish 1-7, wheat 8 and barley 9.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtiss Lectures on Botany

Pea, Pisum sativum, seeds in stages of vegetation.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtiss Lectures on Botany

Camellia reticulata, Captain Rawes camellia, scarlet flowers, leaves, fruit and seeds.. Illustration by WJ Hooker, engraved by Swan

Dorstenia ceratosanthes, cleft dorstenia, with purple seed receptacle.. Illustration by WJ Hooker, engraved by Swan. Handcolored copperplate engraving from William Curtiss The Botanical Magazine 1827

Myristica fragrans, aromatic or true nutmeg tree: Ripe fruit, mace (4) and nutmeg (6) seed.. Illustration by WJ Hooker, engraved by Swan

Telfairia pedata, oyster nut, queens nut, Zanzibar oil vine fruit in sections, seed, and embryo.. Illustration by WJ Hooker, engraved by Swan

Nutmeg and mace, Myristica moschata.. Drawn and zincographed by C. T. Rosenberg, for Thomas Moores The Garden Companion and Florists Guide, 1852, published by Charles Frederick Cheffins

Seed vessel pericarpium of the milkweed Asclepias syriaca 1-2 and apple Malus domestica 3-4.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtiss

Seed vessel pericarpium of the gooseberry 1-2, fir tree 3 and wallflower 4-5.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtiss Lectures

Seed vessel pericarpium of the pea Pisum sativum and cherry Prunus avium.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtiss Lectures on Botany

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