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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| Language: | English |
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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.
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| Item Description: | Dedication signed: J. W. [id est John Worlidge]. "Kalendarium Rusticum" (page [419]) and "Dictionarium Rusticum" (page 481]" each have separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous." Price on title page: Price Six Shillings. Reproduction of original from University of London's Goldsmiths' Library. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 14 unnumbered pages, 504 pages, folded plate) : illustrations ; |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain -- England -- London. |