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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
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Ink on paper
Page extent
16 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Charles Howard

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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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    The 'Classified Papers' of the Royal Society are papers from British and international natural philosophers and scholars categorised according to subject areas.

    Dates: 1592 - 1741

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