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, 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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