Story: Viticulture

Grape plants

Grape plants

This 1849 botanical illustration depicts two fruiting varieties of grapes, showing their different leaf forms and colours at harvest time, and giving a description of the two varieties.

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University of Melbourne, Special Collections, Baillieu Library
Reference: Elizabeth Twining, Illustrations of the natural order of plants. London: Sampson Low, 1868, plate 37

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Maggy Wassilieff, 'Viticulture - Grape growing in New Zealand', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/artwork/18292/grape-plants (accessed 29 March 2024)

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 24 Nov 2008