Essays on husbandry : Essay I. A general introduction; Shewing That Agricultre 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 Copper-Plates and Representations cut on Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harte, Walter, 1709-1774.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture.

Agriculture--Early works to 1800.

Alfalfa.

Agriculture--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii,[4],213,[1]232p.,Vplates ) ill ;

Other Title:

Essays on husbandry

Place of Publication:

London : printed for W. Frederick in Bath. And sold by J. Hinton, in Newgate-Street; W. Johnston, in Ludgate-Street; T. Field, in Pater-Noster-Row; J. Brotherton, in Cornhill; P. Valliant, in the Strand; Mess. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; Mess. Wilson and Saunders, Seedsmen near Durham-Yard in the Strand; and H. Bradley, in Dublin, MDCCLXIV. [1764]

Notes:

Anonymous. By Walter Harte.

The words "printed .. Bath." in the imprint are enclosed within square brackets.

Essay II has separate pagination.

Signatures: pi² a² b⁴ [c]⁴ A-C⁴ *C-2E⁸ (C3 missigned B3).

With advertisement on [c]3r.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T96316.

OCLC:

642758387