The Fruit Grower's Guide

Orchard apples, glasshouse grapes and carefully named strawberries glow in these prints from The Fruit Grower's Guide, John ...

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Orchard apples, glasshouse grapes and carefully named strawberries glow in these prints from The Fruit Grower's Guide, John Wright's horticultural work published by Virtue in the early 1890s with illustrations by May Rivers and diagrams by Worthington G. Smith. The chromolithographs here are catalogued to 1892, and each picks out individual cultivars rather than treating fruit as anonymous decoration. Pears, cherries, peaches and plums appear with their leaves, stalks and characteristic colouring, nuts, currants and raspberries fill out the kitchen garden, and grapes and exotic fruits reflect growing under glass. Some of the varieties survive in orchards today; others are far less familiar.

Orchard apples, glasshouse grapes and carefully named strawberries glow in these prints from The Fruit Grower's Guide, John Wright's horticultural work published by Virtue in the early 1890s with illustrations by May Rivers and diagrams by Worthington G. Smith. The chromolithographs here are catalogued to 1892, and each picks out individual cultivars rather than treating fruit as anonymous decoration. Pears, cherries, peaches and plums appear with their leaves, stalks and characteristic colouring, nuts, currants and raspberries fill out the kitchen garden, and grapes and exotic fruits reflect growing under glass. Some of the varieties survive in orchards today; others are far less familiar.

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