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Paper regarding the cultivation of canary seed, including how to prepare land for planting, the appropriate season and soil for planting, how and when to harvest the seed, and appropriate pricing for the seed.

Subject: Agriculture

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The husbandry of canary seed'.

Read to the Royal Society on 15 January 1712.

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CLP/10iii/40
Earliest possible date
1712
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'The husbandry of canary seed' by Edwd [Edward] Tenison, 1712, CLP/10iii/40, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_10iii_40/paper-the-husbandry-of-canary-seed-by-edwd-edward-tenison, accessed on 13 October 2024

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