Certain Observations.
There is a Knight now living in England that got a thousand pounds per annum by planting Car∣rets in a mere sandy ground.
Adam out of Eden: or, an abstract of divers excellent experiments touching the advancement of husbandry. Shewing, among very many other things, an aprovement of ground by rabbiss [sic],from 200 l. annual rent, to 2000 l. yearly profit, all charges deducted. / By Ad. Speed. Gent.
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- Adam out of Eden: or, an abstract of divers excellent experiments touching the advancement of husbandry. Shewing, among very many other things, an aprovement of ground by rabbiss [sic],from 200 l. annual rent, to 2000 l. yearly profit, all charges deducted. / By Ad. Speed. Gent.
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- Speed, Adolphus, fl. 1652-1659.
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- London :: Printed for Henry Brome, at the Gun in Ivy-lane,
- 1659 [i.e. 1658]
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- Horticulture and crops -- England
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"Adam out of Eden: or, an abstract of divers excellent experiments touching the advancement of husbandry. Shewing, among very many other things, an aprovement of ground by rabbiss [sic],from 200 l. annual rent, to 2000 l. yearly profit, all charges deducted. / By Ad. Speed. Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A93639.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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2. There are divers in London that will give thirty pound an a∣cre to sowe Clove Gilly flowers, and so for many years. I especially by means of the Muck water, and the muck, the like benefit made per annum of red Roses.
3. There are about London that do make two hundred pound an acre by gardening, and exceeding great profit may be made there∣by in most places of England, which may be performed, only an experienced Gardner of London told me they usually fat their Cows and Swine with the offal of Gardening∣stuff