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Details about how to press flowers in a book so that the colours are retained using iron plates and an oven - about how to keep fruit or flowers for the whole year without spoiling - how to make fruit and flowers grow in the winter

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RBO/7/63
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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'Several Experiments concerning preserving of flowers Fruits etc in their Colours' by Robert Southwell, RBO/7/63, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_7_63/several-experiments-concerning-preserving-of-flowers-fruits-etc-in-their-colours-by-robert-southwell, accessed on 16 June 2025

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