Seeds Collection

Nigeria - A Yoruba Grocer Date: circa 1920s

Draycott, Cotswold village, Blockley Station, on the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway, viewed from the south-east. Date: circa 1917

Farmer sowing seeds
Woodcut rendering of a German farmer sowing seeds on his land. Date: circa 1930

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

Venus flytrap, Dionaea muscipula. Illustration from John Ellis, Directions for bringing over seeds and plants from the East Indies to which is added

Filling the Air with Fairy Forms -- a little girl blows a dandelion clock and in her imagination it turns into a flight of fairies. Date: circa 1920s

The Parable of the Seed - Matthew 15. circa 1688

Advertising insert, Eppss Cocoa

Green and pink seeds of nutmeg and mace, Myristica fragrans Houtt.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

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

The Parable of the Sower sowing Seeds

Fairy Time - A seated fairy blows a dandelion head
Fairy Time - A seated fairy queen blowing the seeds off a dandelion seed head, whilst two sprites rest nearby under two toadstools Date: 1939

Picking cotton seeds, St Vincent, Caribbean Date: early 1900s

Picking cotton seeds in St Vincent early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Dandy Puffs by Margaret Tarrant from Joan in Flowerland
Dandy Puffs by Margaret Tarrant, from Joan in Flowerland

Sutton's Seeds Advertisement
An advertisement for Sutton and Sons, the King's Seedsmen in Reading, promoting Sutton's Seeds. The illustration shows a foreground living space

Geese invade the field where the Brownies are sowing seeds Date: 1910

Advert, Sutton's Seeds Post Free
Advert, Sutton & Sons, Reading, Sutton's Seeds delivered post free by the postman. Date: 1880

Rubber Tree to Finished Motor Tyres 1907
Showing the plantation where the rubber is produced for the Dunlop Tyres factory where it is pressed, stretched and moulded into shape ready to be used on motorcars. Date: 1907

Mergamma pesticide advert, 1954
Protect good seed with Mergamma A. Advert for Mergamma double-action seed dressing, a pesticide killing wireworm and disease, from Plant Protection Ltd

Austrian farmers on their way to church, 18th century
Austrian farmers in Sunday Best outfits on their way to church, 18th century. Contadini dell Austria che si recano alla chiesa

Sowing seeds
Young farm worker sowing seeds. Date: circa 1902

Sprig of the anchiote tree, Bixa orellana. The flavoring and dye annatto is derived from its seeds. Copperplate engraving after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his

Papaya or pawpaw tree with fruit and cross section of fruit. Papayer comestible, Carica papaya. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard

Advert for Chinese Lantern Plant 1897
Ornamental window or garden plant, (Physalis alkekengi), giving you a delicious fruit, growing freely during the summer and winter months

A lady feeds her pet birds, some inside an elaborate aviary, so roaming free... She is using her skirt as a holder for her birdseed! Date: circa 1820s

Birthday postcard, Honesty pods and apples
Birthday postcard, Honesty pods (Lunaria Annua) in a vase with apples in a bowl. Date: early 20th century

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

Advert for Amorphophallus Campanulatus, plant seeds 1891
Amorphophallus Campanulatus, two or three feet across, with spotted stem which rises several feet and unfolds at the top an umbel of beautiful palm-like foliage which spreads out several feet like an

SEED CATALOGUE COVER
Cover of a seed catalogue, William Bryiant of Rugby, England Date: 1885

Red pomegranate seeds on display - market stall in Old Delhi
Bright red pomegranate seeds on display on a market stall in Old Delhi, India. Incense is burning to keep off the flies. Date: 1985

Old muslim seller of seeds - Rhodes, Greece
Old muslim seller of seeds - in the old Turkish Quarter in Rhodes, Greece. Date: circa 1920s

Art nouveau tree designs
A multi-coloured assemblage of art nouveau tree designs and pine cones, with a more representational image of trees at the centre. Date: circa 1920s

Northern red-backed vole - feeds on Siberian stone pine (Pinus sibirica Mayr) seeds - a cone on the left (Clethrionomys rutilus Pallas)

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

Scarlet flesh rock melon, Cucumis melo cantalupensis.. Handcolored stipple engraving of an illustration by George Brookshaw from his own Pomona Britannica, London, Longman, Hurst, etc. 1817

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

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

Whatas or Patukas - Maori Food Storehouses. They are elevated from the ground by posts, to protect their contents from rats. Top left is an ordinary patuka for holding seeds

Sowing by Hand
A farmer sowing seeds by hands in a freshly ploughed field on a farm in Great Britain. Date: 1930s

Fan design - The Seasons - Spring. circa 1900s

X-Ray - Leaves and Seeds. Part of Box 165 Boswell Collection - X-Rays. Date: circa 1900

X-Ray - Pictures of 11 different seeds. Part of Box 165 Boswell Collection - X-Rays. Date: circa 1900

Fiddle Sowing and Harrowing - an agricultural scene with a man using a fiddle sower with a girl behind carrying a bucket of seeds, in a ploughed field

Harrow and Sowing Fiddle - same view as WAG 3101, an Agricultural scene of a man using a fiddle sower with a girl carrying a bucket of seeds, to the right is a man and horse pulling a Harrow

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping