Essays on husbandry. Essay I. A general introduction, shewing, that agriculture is the basis and support of all flourishing communities;-the antient and present state of that useful art;-agriculture, manufactures, trade, and commerce justly harmonized;-of the right cultivation of our colonies;-together with the defects, omissions, and possible improvements in English husbandry. Essay II. An account of some experiments tending to improve the culture of lucerne by transplantation; being the first experiments of the kind hitherto made and published in England: from whence it appears, that Lucerne is an article of great importance in English husbandry. The whole illustrated with five copper-plates, and twenty -five representation cut on wood. To which is prefixed, an epistle dedicatory in verse. The second edition, corrected and enlarged. By the Revd. Walter Harte, A.M. canon of windsor, and chaplain to the Right Hon. the earl of Chesterfield

People / Organizations

• Walter Harte (Author)

Imprint

London : Printed for W. Frederick, at Bath; W. Johnston Ludgate-street, and sold by Robinson and Roberts, at No 25, in Pater-noster Row, and J. Dodsley, Pall-mall, M.DCC.LXX. [1770]

Publication year

1770

ESTC No.

T96317

Grub Street ID

315774

Description

xxvi,[2],213,[1],232,[2]p., V plates : ill ; 8°.

Note

With a final advertisement leaf.