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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- 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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- Worlidge, John, fl. 1660-1698.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by J.C. for T. Dring :
- 1675.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67083.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.
Contents
- THE EXPLANATION OF THE Frontispiece.
- title page
- TO THE GENTRY AND YEOMANR OF ENGLAND.
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PROOEMIUM IN LAUDEM
AGRICƲLTƲRAE; BEING The PREFACE or INTRODUCTION TO THE WORK: Shewing the EXCELLENCY, UTILITY, and NECESSITY of HUSBANDRY. - A TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS Contained in this TREATISE.
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THE ANALYSIS, OR Summary of the Ensuing
WORK. -
part
- CHAP. I.
- CHAP. II.
- CHAP. III.
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CHAP. IV.
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SECT. I.
What Lands are improved by Tillage. -
SECT. II.
Of Digging of Land for Corn. -
SECT. III.
Of the different Species of Grain, Corn, Pulse, &c.usually sown, or necessary to be propagated in our Country-Farm. -
SECT. IV.
Of Hemp and Flax. -
SECT. V.
Of Woad, &c. -
SECT. VI.
Of Setting of Corn. -
SECT. VII.
Of the General Ʋses of Corn, Grain, Pulse, and other Seeds propagated by the Plough. -
SECT. VIII.
Of the Preparation of the Seed.
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SECT. I.
- CHAP. V.
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CHAP. VI.
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SECT. I.
Of the Benefit of Propagating Timber-Trees, and other Trees in general. -
SECT. II.
Of Timber-trees in particular. -
SECT. III.
Of several other Trees not so generally made use of for Timber, as for Fewel, Coppice-woods, Hedge∣rows, &c. -
SECT. IV.
Of Aquaticks, or Trees affecting Moist and Watry places. -
SECT. V.
Of other Trees usually planted for Ornament, or adorn∣ing Gardens, Avenues, Parks, and other places adjoyning to your Mansion-house, and conver∣tible also to several uses. -
SECT. VI.
Of Shrubs and other Trees less useful, yet planted for Ornament and Delight. -
SECT. VII.
Of such Trees that are necessary and proper for Fencing and Enclosing of Lands, Orchards, Gardens, &c.And the best way of raising such Fences. -
SECT. VIII.
Of the Nursery for the more convenient propagation of most of the fore-mentioned Trees. -
SECT. IX.
Of the Transplantation of Trees. -
SECT. X.
Of the Pruning, Shrowding, Cutting, and Felling of Trees and Copses.
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SECT. I.
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CHAP. VII.
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SECT. I.
Of the Profits and Pleasures of Fruit-trees. -
SECT. II.
Of Wall-Trees. -
SECT. III.
Of the Propagation of Fruit-Trees. -
SECT. IV.
Of the Nursery for Stocks. -
SECT. V.
Of the Time and Manner of Grafting. -
SECT. VI.
Of the Time and Manner of Inoculation. -
SECT. VII.
Of raising Fruit-trees by the Seeds, Stones, Nuts, or Kernels. -
SECT. VIII.
Of raising and propagating Fruit-trees, by Layers, Slips, and Suckers. -
SECT. IX.
Of the Transplanting of Trees. -
SECT. X.
Of the Pruning of Trees. -
SECT. XI.
Other necessary Observations about Fruit-trees. -
SECT. XII.
Of the use and benefit of Fruits.
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SECT. I.
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CHAP. VIII.
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SECT. I.
Of Hops. -
SECT. II.
Of Liquorice, Saffron, Madder, and Dyers Weed. -
SECT. III.
Of Beans, Pease, Melons, Cucumbers, Asparagus, Cab∣bage, and several other sorts of Garden-Tillage. -
SECT. IV.
Of Carrots, Turneps, and other Roots useful in the Kitchin. -
SECT. V.
Of the manner of ordering and preparing of Garden-Ground, making of hot Beds, and Watering of the Gardens, &c.
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SECT. I.
- CHAP. IX.
- CHAP. X.
- CHAP. XI.
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CHAP. XII.
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part
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SECT. I.
Of Fowling in General. -
SECT. II.
Of taking the greater sort of Fowl with Nets. -
SECT. III.
Of the taking small Water-fowl with Nets. -
SECT. IV.
Of taking great Fowl with Lime-twigs. -
SECT. V.
Of taking Fowl with Springes. -
SECT. VI.
Killing of Fowl with the Fowling-piece. -
SECT. VII.
Of taking Land-Fowl. -
SECT. VIII.
Of taking Fowl with Baits. -
SECT. IX.
Of taking some sorts of Fowl.
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SECT. I.
- Of Fishing.
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part
- title page
- THE PREFACE TO THE KALENDAR.
- chapter - 13
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CHAP. XIV.
-
SECT. I.
Of the different Appearances of the Sun, Moon, Stars, Meteors,or any other thing in the Air, or above us. -
SECT. II.
Of Observations and Prognosticks taken from the Earth and Water. -
SECT. III.
Of Observations and Prognosticks taken from Beasts. -
SECT. IV.
Of Observations and Prognosticks taken from Fowl. -
SECT. V.
Of Observations and Prognosticks from Fishes and Insects. -
SECT. VI.
Promiscuous Observations and Prognosticks.
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SECT. I.
- title page
- TO THE READER.
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DICTIONARIƲM RƲSTICƲM: OR, The INTERPRETATIONS & SIGNIFICATIONS Of several RUSTICK TERMS,&c. - An ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF The Principal Matters before treated of.