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  • The gardener's dictionary. Containing, the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, flower, fruit, and pleasure garden; wherein all the articles contained in the former editions of this work, in two volumes, are disposed in one alphabet. With the addition of a great number of plants / [Philip Miller].
  • Indians on a coffee plantation washing in a lake and gathering together on the bank. Coloured lithograph by V. Adam, c. 1850, after J. M. Rugendas.
  • A tea plantation in China: some men prepare the soil for planting while others rest. Coloured lithograph.
  • A tea plantation in China with women picking and sifting tea leaves. Gouache painting with oxidization.
  • M0001605: Photograph of two men in the bough of a cinchona tree using a pulley to collect cinchona seeds
  • M0001605: Photograph of two men in the bough of a cinchona tree using a pulley to collect cinchona seeds
  • M0001605: Photograph of two men in the bough of a cinchona tree using a pulley to collect cinchona seeds
  • M0001605: Photograph of two men in the bough of a cinchona tree using a pulley to collect cinchona seeds
  • M0001605: Photograph of two men in the bough of a cinchona tree using a pulley to collect cinchona seeds
  • M0001605: Photograph of two men in the bough of a cinchona tree using a pulley to collect cinchona seeds
  • M0001605: Photograph of two men in the bough of a cinchona tree using a pulley to collect cinchona seeds
  • M0001605: Photograph of two men in the bough of a cinchona tree using a pulley to collect cinchona seeds
  • A tea plantation in China: monkeys gather tea leaves for men with baskets. Coloured aquatint, early 19th century.
  • A Chinese woman picking tea leaves. Wood engraving, 1857, after a pen and ink drawing.
  • Nine scenes showing tea cultivation and preparation on an Indian plantation. Engraving by T. Brown, c. 1850, after J. L. Williams.
  • Nine scenes showing tea cultivation and preparation on an Indian plantation. Engraving by T. Brown, c. 1850, after J. L. Williams.
  • Six scenes from a Tamil village and neigbouring tea plantation. Coloured pen and ink drawing by J.P. Gulich, c. 1889.
  • Agriculture: four labourers weeding rice paddies in China, with their master looking on. Engraving by J. June after A. Heckel.
  • People with baskets and sacks pick cotton on a plantation. Coloured lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.
  • Sowing cinchona seeds in a nursery bed, Munsong plantation.
  • The manufacture of tobacco with leaves being sorted, dried, cured and pressed. Engraving, c. 1750.
  • The manufacture of tobacco with leaves being sorted, dried, cured and pressed. Engraving, c. 1750.
  • A Chinese man with his tea pot, and workers harvesting tea. Etching with engraving, c. 1693.
  • Women gathering leaves of the coca plant (Erythroxylum coca) in Bolivia. Wood engraving, c. 1867.
  • A tea plant (Camellia sinensis), its flowers and seeds, bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
  • Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau: workers preparing cakes from manioc root, within a decorative border. Engraving, c. 1777.
  • A coffee plant (Coffea arabica), its flower and fruit segments bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
  • West Indian sugar-growers making gin for the British market at the expense of Scottish grain farmers. Aquatint by Samuel de Wilde, 1808.
  • Monoconical tsetse fly trap in situ
  • Echinacea harvest (Cone Flower)