A compleat system of husbandry and gardening; or, The gentleman's companion, in the business and pleasures of a country life

Publication Date1716
RemainderShewing, 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
Extentxxvi,[14],504p.,folded plate
LocationLondon
PublisherPrinted 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

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