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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worlidge, John, active 1669-1698.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Standardized Title:

Systema agriculturae

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture.

Physical Description:

xxvi pages, 14 unnumbered pages,504 pages,folded plate : illustrations ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

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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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

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.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from University of London's Goldsmiths' Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N4932.

Contains:

Kalendarium Rusticum.

Dictionarium Rusticum.

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Restricted for use by site license.