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.

A TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS Contained in this TREATISE.

• I. OF Husbandry, and Improvements in general; plainly discovering the Nature, Reasons, and Causes of Improvements, and the growth of Ve∣getables.
• II. Of the great benefits and advantages of Inclosing Lands.
• III. Of Meadow and Posture-lands, and the seve∣ral ways of their Improvements, either by Wa∣tering or Drowning, or by Sowing or Propaga∣ting several sorts of extraordinary Grasses, Hays, &c.
• IIII. Of Arable Land and Tillage, and of the several Grains, Pulses, &c. usually propagated by the Plough.
• V. Of the Manuring, Dunging, and Soyling of Land.
• VI. Of the benefit, raising, planting, and propagating of all sorts of Timber-trees, and other Trees useful either in Building, or other Mechanick uses, or for Fencing, Fewel, &c.
• VII. Of Fruit-Trees.
• VIII. Of such Tillage, Herbs, Roots and Fruits, that are usually planted and propagated in Gardens, Garden-grounds, either for necessary food, use, or advantage.
• IX. Of several sorts of Beasts, Fowls and Insects, u∣sually kept for the advantage and use of the Hus∣bandman.
• X. Of common and known External Injuries, Inconve∣niencies,

• Enemies and Diseases incident to, and u∣sually afflicting the Husbandman in most of the Ways or Methods of Agriculture before treated of; and the several Natural and Artificial Remedies proposed and made use of for the prevention and removal of them.
• XI. Of the several sorts of Instruments, Tools and Engines incident to this Profession of Agriculture; and of some Amendments and profitable Experi∣ments in Building, either by Timber, Stone, Brick, or any other way.
• XII. Of Fishing and Fowling.
• XIII. Kalendarium Rusticum: Or, Monethly Dire∣ctions for the Husbandman.
• XIV. Of the Prognosticks of Dearth or Scarcity, Plen∣ty, Sickness, Heat, Cold, Frost, Snow, Winds, Rain, Hail, Thunder, &c.
• XV. Dictionarium Rusticum: Or, The Interpretation of Rustick Terms, &c.