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  • Echinacea harvest (Cone Flower)
  • Echinacea harvest (Cone flower)
  • Echinacea harvest (Cone Flower)
  • Echinacea harvest (Cone Flower)
  • Preserving the harvest / Heinz.
  • Preserving the harvest / Heinz.
  • Preserving the harvest / Heinz.
  • Preserving the harvest / Heinz.
  • Echinacea harvest (Cone Flower)
  • Echinacea harvest (Cone Flower)
  • Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy) harvested.
  • A grape harvest; representing September. Etching by G. Perelle, c. 1660.
  • A field being harvested; representing July. Etching by G. Perelle, c. 1660.
  • Hops being cut down and harvested in the field. Aquatint, c. 1786.
  • Harvest time in a hop-garden at Farnham, Surrey. Wood-engraving, c. 1835.
  • Harvest time in a hop-garden in Kent. Wood-engraving, c. 1857 (?).
  • A tea plantation in China: workers trim the harvested tea leaves. Coloured lithograph.
  • English style salad recipes : harvesters salad with red cabbage and walnut salad / Tesco.
  • English style salad recipes : harvesters salad with red cabbage and walnut salad / Tesco.
  • Hops being cut down and harvested: six scenes. Sepia aquatint by W.H. Pyne, ca. 1804.
  • Men stroll amid fields being harvested; representing summer. Etching by N. Perelle after himself, 17th century.
  • A couple bringing in the harvest; representing the fortieth year of life. Engraving by Conrad Meyer, 16--.
  • A celebration party given in honour of a good harvest. Engraving by B. Picart, 1733, after Virgil.
  • A corn-harvester, with a scythe and a sickle. Engraving by J.C. Le Vasseur after D. Teniers.
  • Arctium lappa L. Asteraceae. Greater Burdock. Distribution: Europe to India and Japan. Dioscorides (Beck, 2003) writes: '... helps those who spit blood and who suffer from abscesses ... plastered on it stems the pains around the joints that stem from twistings. The Leaves are applied beneficially on old ulcers.' Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘Burdanae, etc. Of Bur, Clot-Bur or Burdock, ... helps such as spit blood and matter, bruised and mixed salt and applied to the place, helpeth the bitings of mad dogs. It expels wind, easeth pains of the teeth, strengthens the back, helps the running of the reins, and the whites in women, being taken inwardly.’ The roots contain inulin, which is made into a non-digestible sweetener for diabetics. It has a multitude of uses in herbal medicine, in particular it is a component of a compound called ‘essiac’ that has been widely used as a treatment of cancers in the USA, but which is of no proven benefit. The young roots can be eaten raw or cooked. The seeds are hairy and care should be taken when harvesting them as inhaled they are reported as ‘toxic’. The root is licensed for use in Traditional Herbal Medicines in the UK (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • People walk in the countryside amidst a grape harvest; representing autumn. Etching by N. Perelle, 17th century.
  • People loading corn on to a horse-drawn cart at harvest-time. Engraving by J. Cousen after J. Linnell.
  • A farmer and his wife contemplating their full-grown crop in a field ready for harvest. Colour lithograph, 18--.
  • Agricultural labours: harvesters loading sheaves of corn on to a wagon, and a man and boy shearing sheep. Engraving after E. Bendemann.
  • Ceres (Demeter) on a chariot drawn by lions receives offerings from peasants; representing harvest. Etching by G. Zocchi after P. da Cortona.