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  • Two parrots perched on a cashew-nut tree branch. Coloured etching.
  • A Japanese walnut (Juglans ailantifolia): fruiting tree branch with separate opened fruit and nuts. Watercolour.
  • A coffee tree (Coffea species), nutmeg plant (Myristica fragrans) and cashew nut tree (Anacardium occidentale): flowers and fruit. Coloured engraving, c. 1827.
  • Cashew nut tree (Anacardium occidentale): fruiting and flowering branch. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1796, after J. Ihle.
  • A workshop in which oils are made from trees, nuts, berries etc. for foodstuffs and medicines. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Animals and plants from the East Indies, including chinese citron or natsumikan, jak fruit, nam-nam tree, bilimbi tree, betel nuts and filander. Line engraving after C. de Bruins, 1706.
  • Pinus mugo Turra, Pinaceae Mountain pine. Distribution: Mountain regions in south and central Europe. Source of pine cone syrup used in cooking. Pine trees in general have a small edible pine nut in the pine cone, which Lyte (1578) writes are 'good for the lungs, they cleanse the breast, and cause the fleme to be spit out: also they nourish well and engender good blood, and for this cause they are good for such as have the cough.' He wrote that it was used for burns, wounds, dysentery, and as a diuretic. Quincy says of fir (Pinus) cones that they strengthen the genital parts, and increase the quantity of seed, or increase Desire without adding to Ability or Performance. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Six pictures of foliage illustrating the general character of two trees - the plane (Platanus species) and walnut (Juglans regia). Lithograph after G. Barnard, c. 1849.
  • A hazel or filbert plant (Corylus species): fruiting branch with separate nut and leaf. Watercolour.
  • Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans): stem with fruit and nut and floral segments. Coloured lithograph by C. Rosenberg, c. 1850, after himself.
  • A plant (Myristica malabarica): branch with fruit, kernels, flowers and floral segments. Coloured line engraving.
  • Cashew nut or acajou (Anacardium occidentale L.): flowering and fruiting branch with separate sectioned flowers and fruit. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c. 1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • Singapore: bungalows under coconut palms at Tanjong Katong. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.
  • Indian almond (Terminalia catappa L.): leaves, tree, fruit, flowers, seed and cross-sections of fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • Oak (Quercus robur), hazel (Corylus avellana) and hornbeam (Carpinus betulus): fruiting and flowering twigs. Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
  • Label for Areca nut tooth paste, 1900-1910?
  • Coconuts and trees (Cocos nucifera), a cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum verum) and pinang tree (Areca catechu), in a tropical landscape. Line engraving after J. Nieuhoff.
  • A group of men in turbans are carrying a litter, and attending to their passenger. Coloured aquatint by J. Wells after C. Gold.
  • A man climbing a coconut palm (Cocos nucifera L.) which stands by a banana plant (Musa sp.), in a waterside setting in Bombay, India. Engraving by J. Shury after J. Forbes, 1768.
  • Coconut palm (Cocos nucifera): four sections of the fruit and nut. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1807, after J. Ihle.
  • Juglang regia (Walnut)
  • A Brazilian rubber tree (Hevea Brasiliensis), its flower and fruit segments bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
  • Colombia: an out-house for preparation of food. Coloured lithograph by C. Empson, 1836.