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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.
- Title
- A compleat system of husbandry and gardening [electronic resource] : 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.
- Author
- Worlidge, John, active 1660-1698.
- 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.
Details
- Additional Authors
- Gale (Firm)
- Description
- xxvi,[14],504p.,plate; 8⁰.
- Uniform Title
- Systema agriculturæ
- Eighteenth century collections online.
- Alternative Title
- Systema agriculturæ
- Subject
- Note
- 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.
- Indexed In (note)
- Goldsmiths'
- English Short Title Catalog
- Reproduction (note)
- Electronic reproduction.
- OCLC
- 728248106
- T96520
- Author
- Worlidge, John, active 1660-1698.
- Title
- A compleat system of husbandry and gardening [electronic resource] : 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.
- Imprint
- 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.
- Series
- Eighteenth century collections online.
- Indexed In:
- Goldsmiths', 5292
- Reproduction
- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
- Indexed In:
- English Short Title Catalog, T96520.
- Connect to:
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain England London.
- Added Author
- Gale (Firm)