A compleat system of husbandry and gardening; or, The gentleman's companion, in the business and pleasures of a country life. Shewing, I. The several new and most advantagious ways of tilling, planting, sowing, manuring, ordering, and improving of all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods, and coppices. As also of fruits; corn, grain, pulse, new-hays, cattle, fowl, beasts, bees, silk-worms, fish, and fish-ponds. II. The Husbandman's monthly directions. Also the prognosticks of dearth, scarcity, plenty, sickness, heat, cold, frost, snow, winds, rain, hail, and thunder. III. The interpretation of rustick terms. With an account of the several instruments and engines used in this profession, and exact draughts thereof curiously engraven on copper. The whole collected from, and containing what is most valuable in all the books hitherto written upon this subject; with many new experiments and observations

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  • A compleat system of husbandry and gardening; or, The gentleman's companion, in the business and pleasures of a country life. Shewing, I. The several new and most advantagious ways of tilling, planting, sowing, manuring, ordering, and improving of all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods, and coppices. As also of fruits; corn, grain, pulse, new-hays, cattle, fowl, beasts, bees, silk-worms, fish, and fish-ponds. II. The Husbandman's monthly directions. Also the prognosticks of dearth, scarcity, plenty, sickness, heat, cold, frost, snow, winds, rain, hail, and thunder. III. The interpretation of rustick terms. With an account of the several instruments and engines used in this profession, and exact draughts thereof curiously engraven on copper. The whole collected from, and containing what is most valuable in all the books hitherto written upon this subject; with many new experiments and observations
  • Systema agriculturae
  • Kalendarium Rusticum.; Dictionarium Rusticum.
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Imprint
London : Printed for J. Pickard, next the Cock-Inn in Aldersgate-street, A. Bettesworth at the Red-Lyon in Paternoster-Row, and E. Curll at the Dial and Bible in Fleet-Street, 1716.
Publication year
1716
ESTC No.
N4932
Grub Street ID
33718
Description
xxvi,[14],504p.,folded plate : ill. ; 8°.
Note
Dedication signed: J. W. [i.e. John Worlidge]

"Kalendarium Rusticum" (p. [419]) and "Dictionarium Rusticum" (p. 481]" each have separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous

Price on title page: Price Six Shillings.
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Title page is possibly a cancel. Please verify. DFOFIXED DMS; DFONOTE jre: t.p. is possibly a cancel (in DFo copy appears to be a singleton with stub between it and A2); sep. dated t.p.s for "Kalendarium Rusticum:..." (on p. [419]) with continuous pag. and register, and also for "Dictionarium Rusticum;" on p. [481] as noted above; 1 folded plate