Background:

These Vegetable and Fruit botanical prints are from a guide to the "formation and management of a kitchen garden and the cultivation of useful vegetables and fruits".

Not intended for the city dweller where space was at a premium, it was recommended that the garden should consist of "rectangular, convenient sized plots, slightly slopping to the south, with good walks of sufficient width between".  The goal of the guide was to "produce abundant supplies of all the kitchen garden productions ordinarily required in a substantial middle-class household".