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Charles-Marie-Edmé Pajot. Coloured lithograph by A. Gill, 1879.
Gill, André, 1840-1885.Reference: 7571i- Books
Burnt substances / taken from Alexander Trallianus, by E. Trosse.
Trosse, E.Date: 1896- Books
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Tulipmania : money, honor, and knowledge in the Dutch golden age / Anne Goldgar.
Goldgar, AnneDate: 2007- Ephemera
If you're too busy to read this, you really should read this / Ocado in partnership with Waitrose.
Ocado (Firm)Date: [2001]- Pictures
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Two plants (Pisonia sylvestris and Pisonia alba ): flowering and leafy shoots with separate numbered flower and fruit sections. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
Hoola van Nooten, Berthe, 1817-1892.Date: [1885]Reference: 16395i- Books
Foods to fight cancer / Richard Béliveau and Denis Gingras.
Béliveau, Richard, 1953-Date: 2017- Pictures
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A man posing in a dark hat in front of a brick wall.
Date: [ca. 1910]Reference: 2044756iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Archives and manuscripts
Audrey Amiss sketchbook: carton and kettle, fruit and vegetables, plants, bottles, glass bowl (July-August 2004)
Date: 11/07/2004-25/08/2004Reference: PP/AMI/B/841Part of: Audrey Amiss Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Insects & Crops
Date: Late 19th centuryReference: WF/C/M/SL/10/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Digital Images
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Broccoli floret
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A monkey with a red cap, standing behind a heavily laden table in a larder. Colour lithograph after G. Lance, 1847.
Lance, George, 1802-1864.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 39964i- Pictures
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A monkey with a cap, standing behind a heavily laden table in a larder. Engraving by W. Taylor after G. Lance, 1847.
Lance, George, 1802-1864.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 39967i- Pictures
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An Australian lily (Doryanthes excelsa) picked in New South Wales. Photograph, 1882.
Date: 1882Reference: 574859i- Books
A dictionary of the economic products of India / by George Watt (assisted by numerous contributors).
Watt, George, Sir, 1851-1930.Date: [1972]- Pictures
Jeremiah Dyson, or 'Mungo', sews a gold button on a coat surrounded by a group of tailors above whom is suspended a large hoop petticoat of the Princess of Wales. Engraving, 1770.
Date: [1770]Reference: 583903i- Digital Images
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Matthiola incana (L.)W.T.Aiton Brassicaceae Distribution: The genus name commemorates Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1500/1–77), physician and botanist, whose name is Latinised to Matthiolus.. Incana means hoary or grey, referring to the colour of the leaves. Mattioli's commentaries on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides were hugely popular. Matthiola incana was first described by Linnaeus as Cheiranthus incanus, being changed to Matthiola by William Aiton, at Kew, in 1812. It is in the cabbage family. Commercial seed packets contain a mixture of single and double forms. The latter are sterile, but selective breeding has increased the proportion of double forms from the seed of single forms to as much as 80%. ‘Ten week stocks’ are popular garden annuals, flowering in the year of sowing, whereas ‘Brompton stocks’ (another variety of M. incana) are biennials, flowering the following year. Gerard (1633), called them Stocke Gillofloure or Leucoium, and notes the white and purple forms, singles and doubles. About their medicinal value he writes ‘not used in Physicke except among certain Empiricks and Quacksalvers, about love and lust matters, which for modestie I omit’. The thought of a member of the cabbage family being an aphrodisiac might encourage the gullible to take more seriously the government’s plea to eat five portions of vegetable/fruit per day. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Archives and manuscripts
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Letter from J B S Haldane to R Ruggles Gates
Date: 15 Jul 1949Reference: HALDANE/4/22/6/14Part of: Haldane Papers- Books
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Experiments in agriculture, made under the direction of the Right Honourable and Honourable Dublin Society, in the year 1771. In which, three comparative methods for the culture of wheat are particularly explained; the Importance to the Community and the Farmer, of sowing Wheat upon Clover-Lay, exemplified by Experiment, upon a large Scale; the Culture of Carrots upon Stiff Ground; the Culture of Horse-Beans, preparatory to Wheat; further Experiments upon Cabbages, and Clover; and other Subjects, interesting to the Husbandry of Ireland. By John Wynn Baker, F. R. S. Member of the Agriculture Society, for the Hundred of Salford, in the County Palatine of Lancaster. And Experimenter in Agriculture to the Dublin Society.
Baker, John Wynn, approximately 1730-1775.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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The country-Gentleman's lawyer; and the farmer's complete library, containing all the laws now in force which particularly relate to country gentlemen, Farmers, Graziers, Clergymen, Landlords, Carriers, and Persons of all Denominations who reside principally in the Country, down to Michaelmas Term 1794. In which is included the whole laws respecting horses; buying stolen or unsound Horses, warranted or not warranted, &c. Horse Racing; Coaches, Waggons, Carts, &c. the laws relating to carriers, cattle, sheep, Wool, Butter, and Cheese; tithes; a complete digest of the game laws, &c. the acts of Parliament and adjudged cases respecting ponds, rivers, Fishing, Bridges, Woods, Underwoods, Inclosures, Roots, Shrubs, Plants, Cabbages, Carrots, Turnips, Potatoes, Parsnips, Beans, Peas, &c. By William Marriot, of the Inner Temple, Esq. Barrister at Law.
Marriott, William, active 1795-1812.Date: [1795?]- Videos
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Movements of the rabbit's alimentary canal.
Date: 1950- Books
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Experiments in agriculture, made under the directions of the Right Honourable and Honourable Dublin Society, in the year 1772. In which, further comparative methods are carried on in the culture of wheat, and the importance to the community and the farmer of [s]owing wheat, upon Clover-Lay, confirmed by further experiments; the same compared with beans, as a preparation for wheat; the culture of carrots and parsnips, horse-beans, clover and cabbages, with a numerous set of minute experiments, taking in all articles of cultivation within the farmers department, ultimately tending to discover the most advantageous courses of crops, for the production of wheat and other grain, independent of fallow. By John Wynn Baker, F.R.S. member of the Agriculture Society, for the hundred of Salford in the county Palatine of Lancaster, and experimenter in agriculture to the Dublin Society.
Baker, John Wynn, approximately 1730-1775.Date: M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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The English hermite, or, Wonder of this age : Being a relation of the life of Roger Crab, living neer Uxbridg, taken from his own mouth, shewing his strange reserved and unparallel'd kind of life, who counteth it a sin against his body and soule to eate any sort of flesh, fish, or living creature, or to drinke any wine, ale, or beere. He can live with three farthings a week. His constant food is roots and hearbs, as cabbage, turneps, carrets, dock-leaves, and grasse; also bread and bran, without butter or cheese: his cloathing is sack-cloath. He left the Army, and kept a shop at Chesham, and hath now left off that, and sold a considerable estate to give to the poore, shewing his reasons from the Scripture, Mark. 10. 21. Jer. 35.
Crab, Roger, 1621?-1680Date: 1655- Books
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A new system of husbandry. From experiments never before made public. With tables shewing the expence and profit of each crop. How to stock Farms to the best Advantage. How the Crops are to follow each other by the Way of Rotation. Of Trench-Plowing, shewing how to raise good Crops without Manure. On Rearing, Breeding, and Feeding Cattle. Of a new discovered cheap Food for Cattle. A Description of a most valuable moving Sheep-House for eating Turnips on the Ground. Of Cabbage Husbandry. Of the Naked Wheat, &c. Of all Sorts of Manures, Marles, Clays, Sands, &c. With many chosen Receipts for the Cure of all Sorts of Cattle. All which are calculated both for the Profit and Amusement of the Country Gentleman and Farmer. To which are Annexed a few Hints particularly and humbly offered for the Perusal of the Legislature. By C. Varlo, Esq. In three volumes. ...
Varlo, Charles, approximately 1725-approximately 1795.Date: [1774]- Books
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A catalogue of seeds and roots, divided under their proper heads; Shewing their different kinds, season of sowing, planting and culture, according to the new stile, colours of flowers, height and time of flowering; The quantity of grass seeds sown on an acre of land, and which trees and shrubs shed their leaves, and which are ever-green. Containing, kitchen garden seeds of roots, 1, 2 Cabbage seeds and their kinds, 3, 4 Sallad seeds, 5, 6 Chardoon, Artichoke and asparagus, 7, 8 Cucumbers, 9, 10 Mellons, gourds and pompions, 11, 12 Sweet and pot-herb seeds, and medicinal seeds. 13, Garden beans, peas, and kindney beans, 14, Tender annual flower seeds, 15, 16 Hardy annual flower seeds, 17, 18 Biennial and perennial flower seeds, 19, 20 Bulbous and tuberous flower roots, 21, 22 Perennial flower roots, 23, Grass seeds, and some others, 24, Fir and pine seeds, 25, Tree and shrub seeds, 26,
Webb, John, seedsman.Date: [1753?-1760?]- Books
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A new system of husbandry. From experiments never before made public. With tables shewing the expence and profit of each crop. How to stock Farms to the best Advantage. How the Crops are to follow each other by the Way of Rotation. On Trench - Plowing, shewing how to raise good Crops without Manure. On Rearing, Breeding, and Feeding Cattle. On a new discovered cheap Food for Cattle. A Description of a most valuable moving Sheep-House for eating Turnips on the Ground. On Cabbage Husbandry. On the Naked Wheat, &c. On all Sorts of Manures, Marls, Clays, Sands, &c. With many chosen Receipts for the Cure of all Sorts of Cattle. All which are calculated both for the Profit and Amusement of the Country Gentleman and Farmer. To which is Annexed, A few Hints particularly and humbly offered for the Perusal of the Legislature. By C. Varley, Esq; The third edition. In three volumes. ...
Varlo, Charles, approximately 1725-approximately 1795.Date: 1772