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The curious fruit and flower gardener. Containing I. Remarks concerning the raising flowers from seed. II. Curious directions for cultivating the choicest fruits of the East and West Indies at a small Expence. III Peculiar observations and Rules for the Management of Dwarf Fruit Trees, Wall Trees, Espaliers, and Standards; by a New Method of rendering them more ornamental and profitable than is commonly practised. IV. The most useful Experiments for improving Land by Grain and Seeds. V. The Names and Characters of all the known Soilsm England, and their Improvement by Grain, Seeds, and Plants. VI. An Exact Description of the great American Aloe, its Manner of Blossoming and Use; with the Culture of that and many other exotic Plants. Vii. An Account of the most beautiful Kinds of Torch Thistles, and their Flowers, &c. Viii. The history of the Glastenbury or holy thorn, which blossoms every Christmas; at which Season it shews its Flowers. though the Weather be ever so severe. By John Cowell, Gardener at Hoxton near London.
Cowell, John (Nurseryman)Date: MDCC.XXXII. [1732]- Digital Images
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Pollen grain, common morning glory (Ipomoea purpurea)
Stefan Eberhard- Digital Images
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Peony pollen grain
Annie Cavanagh- Books
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Tables, ready cast up with great exactness, for the use of bankers, merchants, tradesmen, and others; who may immediately, upon inspection, find the true value of any quantity of gold, from 3 l. 15 s. to 4 l. 2 s. per Ounce; and Silver, from 4 s. 6 d. to 6 s. per Ounce, from One Grain to Ten Pounds Weight. To which is Added, a Table, which, at One View, will shew the Value of any Quantity of Gold agreeable to the present Price of 3l. 17s. 10d. 2q. per 6z. with the specific Weight of all the English Money which is allowed to pass Current by the Lords of the Treasury, and practised by the Bank of England: Also an Account of Gold and Silver Bullion; with Tables for reducing of Silver and Gold of any Fineness to Standard Weight, from One hundred thousand Ounces to One Grain. A Work very necessary at this Time for all Persons who are concerned in Money Transactions. Inscribed to the Bank Directors, with a recommendatory preface, by Samuel Etheridge, of the Bullion Office, Bank of England.
Etheridge, Samuel.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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The mischief of forestalling, engrossing, and regrating considered; the necessity of destroying monopolies and combinations proved; and the benefit of associations to counteract them fully demonstrated. With a critical examination of "the question of scarcity plainly stated," by Arthur Young, Esq. and Advantages of encreasing the Number of Cows in this Kingdom: concluding with An animated Appeal to Britons, on the present State of the Markets in this Kingdom. By the Rev. J. Malham, Vicar of Helton, Dorset; and Ordinary of the County Gaol of Wilts, and Author of the ̀̀scarcity of Grain Considered,'' &c. &c.
Malham, John, 1747-1821.Date: 1800- Digital Images
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Diatoms hidden inside a grain of sand, SEM
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A miller pours grain into a mill from a sack brought by a donkey. Woodcut by J. Amman.
Amman, Jost, 1539-1591.Date: [1568]Reference: 34976i- Ephemera
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English grown quinoa : mother Earth grain.
Date: [1992?]- Digital Images
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Pollen grain on buttercup anther, SEM
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Chart referenced as "Pollen grain development"
Davies, Howard G.Date: April 1953Reference: KDBP/1/1/0941Part of: King's College London Department of Biophysics- Pictures
Against the grain of ostensible agendas
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Two pictures: two women pounding grain and African people brewing pombe. Lithograph with tint plate.
Reference: 25431i- Digital Images
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Ergot growing on the grain of Rye.
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Pollen grain on buttercup anther, 3D SEM
Biosciences Imaging Gp, Soton- Ephemera
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Multi-grain crackers : 170 g. / Fairway GB Ltd.
Date: [2010]- Digital Images
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Plaques of the Sumerian grain goddess Ninsaba, circa 2000BC
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Pests of stored grain and their control / by Hem Singh Pruthi and Mohan Singh ; with a foreword by Shri Jairamdas Daulatram.
Pruthi, Hem Singh, 1897-1969.Date: 1950- Books
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A new and compendious system of husbandry. Containing the mechanical, chemical, and philosophical elements of agriculture. Illustrating I. The Properties of different Soils. II. The Properties of Manures, and their Effects. III. The most advantageous Method of applying Manures on the different Soils. IV. The Improvement of Lands. V. The great Superiority of, and the numerous Advantages resulting from the New and Drill, to the common Mode of Husbandry. VI. The Imperfections of the old Mode of Cultivation clearly pointed out, with a new Method of Culture, founded on Observations, Facts, and Experiments. Vii. Experiments on Grain of different Sorts. Viii. Experiments on Turnips, with the most effectual Recipe for preventing the Ravages of the Fly. IX. Experiments on Fruit Trees and Flowers, with an Account of a new, cheap, and effectual Manure. X. Experiments on fattening of Hogs. XI. A Copperplate and Description of a new-invented Patent Drill Machine, for planting all Sorts of Seed, Grain and Pulse; universally acknowledged to be superior to any hitherto constructed. XII. The Application of Substances for the Analysis of Soils and Manures. With many other useful and interesting Subjects. By George Winter. Member of the Society of Arts in London: Of the Bath Agriculture Society. Honorary Member of the Odiham Agriculture Society. And of the Society for the Participation of Useful Knowledge, at Norwich. And a Practical Agriculturist.
Winter, George, active 1787-1801.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
Antwerp grain trade, 1850-1914 / by Karel Veraghtert.
Veraghtert, Karel.Date: 1994- Books
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The Devil the master; or, rogues in grain.
Date: 1795?]- Books
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A dissertation on smut-balls amongst wheat and other grain, by Roger Treffry, ...
Treffry, Roger.Date: [1793]- Books
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Flora diætetica: or, History of esculent plants, both domestic and foreign. In which they are accurately described, and reduced to their linnăn generic and specific names. With their English names annexed, and ranged under eleven general heads, viz. Esculent 1 Roots, 2 Shoots, stalks, &c. 3 Leaves, 4 Flowers, 5 Berries, 6 Stone-fruit, 7 Apples, 8 Legumens, 9 Grain, 10 Nuts, 11 Funguses. And a particular account of the manner of using them; their native places of growth; their several varieties, and physical properties: together with whatever is otherwise curious, or very remarkable in each species. The whole so methodized, as to form a short introduction to the science of botany. By Charles Bryant, of Norwich.
Bryant, Charles, -approximately 1799.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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A description of ventilators: whereby great quantities of fresh air may with ease be conveyed into mines, goals, hospitals, Work-Houses and Ships, In Exchange for their Noxious Air. An Account also of their Great Usefulness in many other Respects: As in Preserving all Sorts of Grain Dry, Sweet, and free from being Destroyed by Weevels, both in Grainaries and Ships: And in Preserving many other Sorts of Goods. As also in drying Corn, Malt, Hops, Gun-Powder, &c. and for many other useful Purposes. Which was read before the Royal Society in May 1741. By Stephen Hales D. D. F. R. S. Rector of Faringdon, Hampshire; And Minister of Teddington, Middlesex.
Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.Date: M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]- Books
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New experiments in husbandry, for the month of April. Containing Several Processes of Plowing various Lands. The Transcendent Uses of the late invented Hertfordshire-Dourle-Plough. The Improvements of Grain, Grasses, Manures, and Trees. The Prevention and Cure of Rotten-Sheep; also of the Red-Water Foot-Rot, &c. Keeping of Hogs, Cows, and Horses, from Diseases. The Bites of Jockeys, exposed. Of Pickling Pore, and the proper Vessels to keep it in. The Breeding of Fowls. A New invented Rowl. Several Letters concerning Husbandry, and the Author's Answers. With other Beneficial Matters tending to the Improvement of this most Useful Science. By William Ellis, of Little-Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M.DCC.XXXVI. [1736]- Pictures
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The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: a Minnesota grain display. Photograph, 1904.
Date: 1904Reference: 572412iPart of: 1904 World's Fair (or Louisiana Purchase Exposition), St. Louis.