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, as also of fruits, corn, grain, pulse, new-hays, cattle, fowl, beasts, bees, silk-worms, &c. : 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 practice.

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Day	Sun rise. h. m.	Sun set. h. m.
1	Lammas.		Orion appears in the morning.
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3
4
5
6	4 45	7 15
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8			Cor Leonis riseth in the morning with the Sun.
9
10	Laurence.
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12
13	5 00	7 00	Sun in Virgo.
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15
16
17
18
19
20
21	5 15	6 45
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23			Cauda Leonis riseth in the morning with the Sun.
24	Bartholomew.
25
26
27	Dog-days end.
28	5 30	6 30
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31

Non semper aest as erit facite Nidos.

NOw bright Phoebus, after he hath warmed our Northern He∣misphere, retires nimbly towards the Southern; and the fresh Gales of Zephyrus begin to refrigerate the scorching Sun-beams: The Earth now yields to the patient Husbandman the fruits of his labours. This Month returns the Countrymans ex∣pences into his Coffers with increase, and encourages him to a∣nother years adventure. If this Month prove dry, warm, and free from high winds, it rejoyceth the Countrymans heart, en∣creaseth his gains, and abates a great part of his Disbursements.

You may yet Thryfallow: Also lay on your Compost or Soyl, as well on your Barley-land, as Wheat-land.

Carry Wood or other Fewel home before Winter.

Provide good Seed, and well picked against Seed-time.

Put your Ews and Cows, you like not, to fatting.

This is the most principal Harvest-month for most sorts of Grain; therefore make use of good weather whilest you have it.

About the end of this Month you may Mow your after-grass; and also Clover, St. Foyn, and other French Hays or Grasses. Geld Lambs.

THis is a very good time for Inoculation in the former part of this Month.

You may now make Cider of Summer-Fruits; prune away su∣perfluous branches from your Wall-fruit-Trees, but leave not the Fruit bare, except the red Nectorine, which is much melio∣rated and beautified by lying open to the Sun.

Pull up Suckers from the roots of Trees; unbinde the Buds you Inoculated a Month before, if taken.

Plant Saffron, set slips of Gilliflowers, sow Anise. Now is be∣ginning a second season for the encreasing and transplanting most Flowers, and other Garden-plants; as Herbs, Strawberries, &c.

The Seeds of Flowers and Herbs are now to be gathered: Also gather Onions, Garlick, &c.

Sow Cabbages, Colleflowers, Turnips, and other Plants, Roots and Herbs for the Winter, and against the Spring.

Now sow Larks-heels, Canditufts, Columbines, &c. and such Plants as will endure the Winter.

You may yet slip Gilliflowers, and transplant bulbous Roots about Bartholomew-tide: some esteem the only secure season for removing your Perennial or Winter-greens; as Phyllirea's, Myr∣tles, &c. It's also the best time to plant Strawberries, and it's not amiss to dress Rose-trees, and plant them about this time.

Prop up the Poles the winde blows down: Also near the end of the Month gather Hops.

Toward the end of this Month take Bees, unless the goodness of the weather provoke you to stay till the middle of the next: destroy Wasps and other Insects, and streighten the passages to secure them from Robbers.

Notes

• Garden and Orchard.
• Hop-garden.
• Apiary.