Systema agriculturæ : the mystery of husbandry discovered. Treating of the several new and most advantagious ways of tilling, planting, sowing, manuring, ordering, improving of all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods & coppices. .. . With an account of the several instruments and engines used in this profession. To which is added Kalendarium rusticum: or, The husbandmans monthly directions. Also the prognosticks of dearth, scarcity, plenty, sickness, heat, cold, frost, snow, winds, rain, hail, thunder, &c. And Dictionarium rusticum: or, The interpretation of rustick terms. The whole work being of great use and advantage to all that delight in that most noble practise. The fourth edition carefully corrected and amended, with one whole section added, and many large and useful additions throughout the whole work. By J.W. Gent.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Worlidge, John, fl. 1660-1698
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : printed, and are to be sold by John Taylor, at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-Yard, M DC XCVIII. [1698]
Series:Early English books online.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Item Description:J.W. = John Worlidge.
With added engraved title page reading: Systema agriculturæ being the mystery of husbandry discovered and laid open by I.W.
"An explanation of the frontispiece" (in verse, printed on verso) is bound before engraved title page.
"Kalendarium rusticum: or, Monthly directions for the husbandman" and "Dictionarium rusticum; or, The interpretations and significations of several rustick terms used in several places of England" have separate title pages dated 1687; register and pagination are continuous.
Includes index and alphabetical table.
Advertisement on verso of final leaf.
Text is continuous despite pagination.
Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Physical Description:1 online resource ([28], 72, 83-262, [3], 264-326, [6] pages, [1] leaf of plate : illustrations.