Systema agriculturæ : the mystery of husbandry discovered. Treating of the several new and most advantagious ways of tilling, planting, sowing, manuring, ordering, improving of all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods & coppices. .. . With an account of the several instruments and engines used in this profession. To which is added Kalendarium rusticum: or, The husbandmans monthly directions. Also the prognosticks of dearth, scarcity, plenty, sickness, heat, cold, frost, snow, winds, rain, hail, thunder, &c. And Dictionarium rusticum: or, The interpretation of rustick terms. The whole work being of great use and advantage to all that delight in that most noble practise. The fourth edition carefully corrected and amended, with one whole section added, and many large and useful additions throughout the whole work. By J.W. Gent.

Author/creator Worlidge, John
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : printed, and are to be sold by John Taylor, at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-Yard, M DC XCVIII. [1698]
Description[28], 72, 83-262, [3], 264-326, [6] p., [1] leaf of plate : ill.
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Variant title Systema agriculturæ being the mystery of husbandry discovered and laid open.
Variant title Kalendarium rusticum: or, Monthly directions for the husbandman.
Variant title Monthly directions for the husbandman.
Variant title Dictionarium rusticum; or, The interpretations and significations of several rustick terms used in several places of England.
Variant title Interpretations and significations of several rustick terms used in several places of England.
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
General noteJ.W. = John Worlidge.
General noteWith added engraved title page reading: Systema agriculturæ being the mystery of husbandry discovered and laid open by I.W.
General note"An explanation of the frontispiece" (in verse, printed on verso) is bound before engraved title page.
General note"Kalendarium rusticum: or, Monthly directions for the husbandman" and "Dictionarium rusticum; or, The interpretations and significations of several rustick terms used in several places of England" have separate title pages dated 1687; register and pagination are continuous.
General noteIncludes index and alphabetical table.
General noteAdvertisement on verso of final leaf.
General noteText is continuous despite pagination.
General noteReproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
References Wing (2nd ed.) W3602A
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1962:22)
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