Paper, 'Saffron' by Charles Howard
Reference number: CLP/10iii/6
Date: 1663
Description
Paper provides details about the cultivation, drying and selling of saffron. Original figures of saffron kiln included.
Subject: Agriculture / Industry
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the culture, or planting and ordering of saffron'.
Read to the Royal Society on 9 December 1663.
- Reference number
- CLP/10iii/6
- Earliest possible date
- 1663
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 16 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Charles Howard, Paper, 'Saffron' by Charles Howard, 1663, CLP/10iii/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_10iii_6/paper-saffron-by-charles-howard, accessed on 05 December 2025
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