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.
| Author/creator | Worlidge, John |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | 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. |
| Description | xxvi, 14 unnumbered pages, 504 pages, folded plate : illustrations ; 8⁰. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text online |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Systema agriculturæ |
| General note | Dedication signed: J. W. [i.e. John Worlidge]. |
| General note | "Kalendarium Rusticum" (p. [419]) and "Dictionarium Rusticum" (p. 481]" each have separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous. |
| General note | Price on title page: Price Six Shillings. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from University of London's Goldsmiths' Library. |
| References | English Short Title Catalog, N4932. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
| Other title | Kalendarium Rusticum. |
| Other title | Dictionarium Rusticum. |
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