Agnes Block

Agnes, or Agneta Block (29 October 1629, Emmerich am Rhein – 20 April 1704, Amsterdam) was a Dutch art collector and horticulturalist. She is most remembered as the compiler of an album of flower and insect paintings and as one of the first Europeans to successfully cultivate and fruit the pineapple outside of its native habitat.^[1]

^ Van Dyk, Garritt (2022). "Plants as Luxury Foods". In Milam, Jennifer (Ed.). A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Vol. 4. London: Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 51-68. ISBN 9781474273497. OCLC 1402246090.

[1] Van Dyk, Garritt (2022). "Plants as Luxury Foods". In Milam, Jennifer (Ed.). A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Vol. 4. London: Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 51-68. ISBN 9781474273497. OCLC 1402246090.

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