Orchards in the Landscape: A Norfolk Case Study

Dallas, Patsy; Barnes, Gerry; Williamson, Tom

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“…Most pears grown in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were the warden types, which had little flavour but represented 'a valuable source of starchy carbohydrates particularly before the widespread cultivation of potatoes' . 20 Pears therefore tended to be regarded as part of the diet of the very poor and were grown by farmers as food for living-in servants. Apples, on the other hand, were prized for their flavour and consumed by all classes.…”

Section: The Yeoman Apple: Fruit Personification Within Georgicmentioning

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The Uses of Fruit: Literary Symbolism and Technological Change in the Long Eighteenth Century

Bellamy

2015

Literature & History

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This article explores the representation of fruit in English literary texts from the long eighteenth century, showing how writers responded to developments in horticultural technology to diversify the symbolic associations of fruit derived from biblical and classical sources. The dichotomy of native and foreign produce that characterised the georgic poetry of the early eighteenth century was increasingly displaced by oppositions of hardy, natural and wholesome orchard fruits and delicate, unnatural and unhealthy exotic fruits. In the Romantic period novel the representation of fruit draws on the discourse of luxury so that tropical fruit is used to connote the extravagance of new money but also effeminacy and the disruption of the patriarchal order.

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Section: The Yeoman Apple: Fruit Personification Within Georgicmentioning

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The Uses of Fruit: Literary Symbolism and Technological Change in the Long Eighteenth Century

Bellamy

2015

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“…Their distribution, density, shape and size reveals much about cultural and physical associations between people and the landscape (Watkins 2014). As well as for their aesthetic value, ancient woodlands are examined in historical ecology and landscape history studies (Rackham 1980(Rackham , 2000Dallas, Barnes and Williamson, 2015;Williamson, Barnes and Pillatt 2017). Recent research considers the relation between trees and art (Watkins 2018) and the representation of trees in topographical art for landscape research (McLoughlin 1999 Gaynor andMcLean 2008).…”

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The Palm Landscapes of the Italian Riviera

Piana

Watkins

2018

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Palm trees are today a characteristic feature of tropical tourist landscapes around the world from Caribbean to the Maldives. They are also a distinctive element of Mediterranean landscapes. On the Italian Riviera they are frequently found in the grounds of villas and hotels, at railway stations and in public squares. This paper examines the changing landscapes of the palm trees of the Italian Riviera over the last 300 years. Palms, particularly Phoenix dactylifera, were an important element of the local economy cultivated especially for palm fronds to be sold for religious festivals. The widespread presence of palm trees gave stretches of the Ligurian coast an almost tropical character, especially around Bordighera and San Remo. These coastal towns became major health resorts in the late nineteenth century and international tourists and residents celebrated this exotic landscape. The palms became important subjects for amateur and professional artists and photographers and they proliferated in gardens, as street trees and in horticultural collections. They became signature trees for these wealthy therapeutic landscapes but rapid building development and the decline of the palm trade means that only fragments of the old palm plantations remain today and these are in need of careful conservation.

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Orchards in the Landscape: A Norfolk Case Study

Cited by 2 publications

References 5 publications

The Uses of Fruit: Literary Symbolism and Technological Change in the Long Eighteenth Century

The Uses of Fruit: Literary Symbolism and Technological Change in the Long Eighteenth Century

The Palm Landscapes of the Italian Riviera

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