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Letter, 'Of checking the too luxuriant growth of fruit trees' from Keane Fitzgerald to Peter Collinson

Reference number: L&P/4/45

Date: 19 January 1761

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Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments on checking the too luxuriant growth of fruit-tress, tending to dispose them to produce fruit : In a letter to Mr. Peter Collinson, F. R. S. from Keane Fitzgerald, Esq; F. R. S'

Read 12 February 1761

Reference number
L&P/4/45
Earliest possible date
19 January 1761
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Keane Fitzgerald

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Keane Fitzgerald, Letter, 'Of checking the too luxuriant growth of fruit trees' from Keane Fitzgerald to Peter Collinson, 19 January 1761, L&P/4/45, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_45/letter-of-checking-the-too-luxuriant-growth-of-fruit-trees-from-keane-fitzgerald-to-peter-collinson, accessed on 07 November 2025

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