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 thereo

WORLIDGE, JOHN.

Published by J. Pickard,, 1716

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Folding plate. xxvi, [xiv], 504 pp. 8vo. Contemporary panelled calf. Covers a little rubbed and spine label missing. Clean and fresh internally. Seller Inventory # 036126

Bibliographic Details

Title: A compleat system of husbandry and gardening...

Publisher: J. Pickard,

Publication Date: 1716

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 5th or later Edition