'The apple-service' [Sorb apple] Rudolf Hasse Back row: Brian Alderson

Back row: Brian Alderson

General view of Hampstead

Busy scenes showing crowds of traders in a hurry at the London Stock Exchange shorlty after opening for business

View of Cripplegate showing twin lights in the centre window and oval windows each side

'The apple-service' [Sorb apple] Rudolf Hasse Back row: Brian AldersonBotanical study of the sorb apple, fruit of the service tree (Sorbus domestica), showing fruit on the branch, a single specimen, a cut specimen and its seed. Plate 211 from chapter 1 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 1 (London, for the author, 1758). The plate is inscribed: 'SORBUM. The Greater Servis of Sorbe apple, in French Corme. Drawn from Nature of natural