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 Huseandman'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, fl. 1660-1698.

Standardized Title:

Systema agriculturæ

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Early works to 1800.

Agriculture.

Agriculture--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi,[14],504p.,plate )

Other Title:

Compleat system of husbandry and gardening

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 Fleetstreet, 1716.

Notes:

Dedication signed: J. W., i.e. John Worlidge.

At bottom of title page: Price Six Shillings.

First published in 1669 as 'Systema agriculturæ, the mystery of husbandry discovered' - Pp.[481]-504 contain a "Dictionarium rusticum; or, the interpretations and significations of several rustick terms".

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Goldsmiths', 5292

English Short Title Catalog, T96520.

OCLC:

728248106