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The Contents.
THere is contained in this last Edition, whatsoeuer can be requi∣red for the building, or good ordering, of a Husbandmans House, or Countrey Farme: as namely, to foresee the changes and alterations of Times; to know the motions, and powers, of the Sunne and Moone, vpon the things about which Husbandry is occu∣pied: as, to cure the sicke labouring Man; to cure Beasts and flying Fowles of all so••ts; to dresse, plant, or make Gardens, as well for the Kitchin, and Physicke vse, as also in Quarters; with manie faire and cunning portraitures, to make compartments of diuers fashions in euerie quarter: with a large description of the hearbe Nicotiana, or Pe••um; as also of the root Mechoacan: to plant, graft, and order O∣range-trees, Citron-trees, and such other strange Trees: to order Bees: to make Conserues: to preserue Fruits, Flowers, Rootes, and Rindes: to make Honey and Wax: to plant and graft all sorts of Fruit-trees: to make Cyder, 〈…〉〈…〉, and Oyles: to distill Wa∣ters and Oyles, or Quintessences, of whatsoeuer the Husbandmans store and encrease; with manie patternes of Limbeckes for the distil∣ling of them: to feed and preserue Silkewormes: to make and main∣taine Medow-grounds: Fish-ponds of running and standing waters: to take Fishes: to measure and tyll Corne-ground: to bake Bread: to dresse baked Meats: to brew Beere: to trimme Vines: to make me∣dicinable Wines; with a very large and excellent discourse touching the nature and qualitie of Wine in generall; and after that, another speciall and particular one, of all such Wines as grow in Gasconie, Languedo••, Touraine, Orleans, Paris, and other countries of France: to plant Woods of Timber-trees and Vnder-growth: to make a War∣ren: to breed Herons: and to imparke wild Beasts. As also a large dis∣course of hunting the Hart, wild Bore, Hare, Foxe, Gray, Conie, and such like: with the ordering of Hawkes, and all sorts of Birds. And lastly, in the end thereof, is briefely shewed the nature, manner of taking, and feeding, of the Nightingale, Linnet, Gold••••nch, Siskin, Larke, and other such singing and me∣lodious birds.