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General views of garden planting, shrubs, flower beds and trees
Date: Late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: RET 1/8/2/8/13Part of: The Retreat Archive- Pictures
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A group of trees. Wash drawing.
Reference: 22241i- Pictures
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A tree in leaf. Charcoal drawing.
Reference: 22230i- Pictures
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Outline of a tall tree, dwarfing figure at its base. Pencil drawing.
Reference: 22229i- Pictures
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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.
Barnard, George, 1807-1890.Date: [1849]Reference: 23784i- Pictures
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Palmetto palm tree (Sabal palmetto) in arid landscape. Watercolour.
Reference: 22218i- Pictures
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Breadfruit tree (Artocarpus altilis) in tropical landscape. Coloured aquatint by W. Daniell, c. 1809, after himself.
Daniell, William, 1769-1837.Date: 10 April 1809Reference: 21019i- Pictures
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A palm tree. Watercolour.
Reference: 22219i- Pictures
Beech tree (Fagus sylvatica): trunk and branches. Watercolour.
Reference: 22243i- Pictures
Beech tree (Fagus sylvatica): trunk and branches. Watercolour.
Reference: 22244i- Books
A treatise on planting, pruning, and on management of fruit trees / [John Kennedy].
Kennedy, John, 1759-1842Date: 1777- Books
The construction of timber, from its early growth; explained by the microscope, and proved from experiments, in a great variety of kinds: in five books. On the parts of trees; their vessels; and their encrease by growth: and on the different disposition of those parts in various kinds; and the particularities in their vessels. With figures of their various appearances; of the instrument for cutting them; and of the microscope thro' which they were viewed / [John Hill].
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: 1770- Books
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A treatise upon planting, gardening, and the management of the hot-house. Containing I. The Method of planting Forest-Trees in gravelly, poor, mountainous, and heath Lands; and for raising the Plants in the Seed-Bed, previous to their being planted. II. The Method of Pruning Forest-Trees, and how to improve Plantations that have been neglected. III. On the Soils most proper for the different Kinds of Forest-Trees. IV. The Management of Vines; their Cultivation upon Fire-Walls and in the Hot-House; with a new Method of dressing, planting, and preparing the Ground. V. A new and easy Method to propagate Fire Plants, so as to gain Half a Year in their Growth; with a sure Method of destroying the Insect so destructive to Pines. VI. The best Method to raise Mushrooms without Spawn, by which the Table may be plentifully supplied every Day in the Year. Vii. An improved Method of cultivating Asparagus. Viii. The best Method to cultivate Field Cabbages, ... IX. A new Method of managing all Kinds of Fruit-Trees, ... and cure them when blighted. By John Kennedy, Gardener to Sir Thomas Gascoigne, Bart.
Kennedy, John, -1790.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Pictures
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Banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) with many spreading aerial roots. Aquatint by T. Medland, c. 1807, after J. Cordiner.
Cordiner, James, the rev., 1775-1836.Date: 4 June 1807Reference: 20994i- Pictures
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Ketaki (Pandanus tectorius Sol. ex Parkinson): tree bearing flowers and fruit. Coloured lithograph, 1812, after J. Forbes, 1780.
Forbes, James, 1749-1819.Date: [1st June 1813]Reference: 20099i- Pictures
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A fruiting breadfruit tree (Artocarpus altilis). Photograph.
Reference: 28166i- Pictures
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A palm tree with detailed paintings of the trunk and leaf. Watercolour, 1849.
Date: 1849Reference: 22088i- Pictures
Methods of cultivating trees to protect the environment in Tanzania. Colour lithograph, 199-.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 799863i- Pictures
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Banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) growing on a lakeside. Coloured etching by B. Pouncy, c. 1793, after W. Hodges.
Hodges, William, 1744-1797.Date: [1793]Reference: 21016i- Pictures
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Palm tree (Cocos nucifera?) in arid landscape. Watercolour, 1862.
Date: 1862Reference: 22217i- Pictures
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Hawthorn (Crataegus): tree with no leaves. Pen drawing.
Reference: 22226i- Books
Vernatio arborum ... / publico examini submittit Haraldus Barck.
Barck, Harald, 1722-1782.Date: [1753]- Digital Images
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Indian Medicinal Plants and Drugs. Fragments of a Petrified tree
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Two men standing by the huge trunk of an Australian mountain ash tree (Eucalyptus amygdalina). Wood engraving, c. 1867.
Date: [1867-1875]Reference: 20950i- Books
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A new method of propagating fruit-trees, and Flowering Shrubs: whereby the common kinds may be raised more expeditiously; and several curious exotics increased, which will not take root from cuttings or layers. Confirmed by repeated and successful Experience. By Thomas Barnes, Gardener to William Thomson, Esq; at Elsham in Lincolnshire.
Barnes, Thomas, gardener.Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]