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 Monthley 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 and account of the several instruments and engines used in the 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..
Worlidge, John,active 1669-1698.
Worlidge, John,active 1669-1698.Kalendarium rusticum.
Worlidge, John,active 1669-1698.Dictionarium rusticum.
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..
First published in 1669 as 'Systema agriculturæ, the mystery of husbandry discovered'.
Dedication signed: J. W., i.e. John Worlidge.
Includes "Kalendarium rusticum" and "Dictionarium rusticum", each with a special t.p.
ESTC
Goldsmiths' Lib. cat.,
Agriculture
Agriculture
England London.
Also reproduced on microfilm. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, Inc., 1974. Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature ; reel 313, no. 5292.