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 InfoLondon : 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.
Descriptionxxvi, 14 unnumbered pages, 504 pages, folded plate : illustrations ; 8⁰.
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Uniform titleSystema agriculturæ
General noteDedication 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 notePrice on title page: Price Six Shillings.
General noteReproduction of original from University of London's Goldsmiths' Library.
References English Short Title Catalog, N4932.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Other titleKalendarium Rusticum.
Other titleDictionarium Rusticum.

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