Letters, 'Concerning severall plants may be usefully cultivated for producing grasse or hay' by Dr Martin Lister
Reference number: CLP/10i/34
Date: 1696
Description
Excerpts of two letters that provide details about the soil in Yorkshire. Lister's observations include the need to put clay in sandy soil and the fact that planting 'white briony' can make good grass or corn. Lister lists some further plants that could be used to improve agriculture.
Subject: Botany
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Part of two letters wrote some time sine to Oxford, by Dr. Martin Lister, Fell. of Coll of Phys. & R. S. concerning several plants may be usefully cultivated for producing Grass or Hay'.
Read to the Royal Society on 4 February 1696.
- Reference number
- CLP/10i/34
- Earliest possible date
- 1696
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Martin Lister, Letters, 'Concerning severall plants may be usefully cultivated for producing grasse or hay' by Dr Martin Lister, 1696, CLP/10i/34, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_10i_34/letters-concerning-severall-plants-may-be-usefully-cultivated-for-producing-grasse-or-hay-by-dr-martin-lister, accessed on 14 December 2024
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III. Part of two letters wrote some time sine to Oxford, by Dr. Martin Lister, Fell. of Coll of Phys. & R. S. concerning several plant may be usefully cultivated for producing Gras or Hay External link, opens in new tab.
Author: Martin Lister
Date: 1st February 1697
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1695.0071
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