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A compleat system of husbandry and gardening; or, the gentleman's companion, in the business and pleasures of a country life. Shewing, I. The several New and most Advantagious Ways of Tilling, Planting, Sowing, Manuring, Ordering, and Improving of all sorts of Gardens, Orchards, Meadows, Pastures, Corn-Lands, Woods, and Coppices. As also of Fruits, Corn, Grain, Pulse, New-Hays, Cattle, Fowl, Beasts, Bees, Silk-Worms, Fish, and Fish-Ponds. II. The Huseandman's Monthly Directions. Also the Prognosticks of Dearth, Scarcity, Plenty, Sickness, Heat, Cold, Frost, Snow, Winds, Rain, Hail, and Thunder. III. The Interpretation of Rustick Terms. With an Account of the several Instruments and Engines used in this Profession, and exact Draughts thereof curiously Engraven on Copper. The whole collected from, and containing what is most valuable in all the books hitherto written upon this subject; with many New Experiments and Observations.
Worlidge, John, active 1660-1698.Date: 1716- Books
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A catalogue of seeds and hardy plants. With Instructions for Sowing and Planting. Containing Their Latin and English Names, Culture, Times of Flowering, Colours of Flowers of the most ornamental Kinds; With Remarks, shewing, Which are the tallest Growers, and tenderest Kinds. Seeds of Kitchen-Garden Roots Page 1 Seeds of Sallad Herbs and Greens 1 Garden Beans and Pease 4 Kidney or French Beans 5 Seeds of Medicinal Herbs 5 Seeds of Grasses, &c. 5 Seeds of Annual Flowers 6 Seeds of Biennial Flowers 8 Seeds and Plants of Perennial Flowers 10 Bulbous and Tuberous Flower Roots Page 16 Seeds and Plants of Tall Deciduous Trees 19 Seeds and Plants of Deciduous Flowering Shrubs 21 Seeds and Plants of Ever Green Trees and Shrubs 24 Frailing Shrubby Plants 26 Fruit Trees 27 By John Webb, Seedsman, At the Acorn, near Westminster Bridge, London.
Webb, John, seedsman.Date: MDCCLX. [1760]- Books
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Chiltern and Vale farming explained, according to the latest improvements. By the author of The practical farmer; or, the Hertfordshire husbandman: ... Containing, I. The Nature and Improvement of the four Clays, ... II. The Nature and Improvement of the Oak, ... III. Of the Excellency of the White-Lamas-Wheat, and all other Wheats, ... IV. Of natural and artificial Grasses, ... V. Of Blights and Blasts, their Origin and Nature, their Mischiefs and Preventions. VI. Of Ploughing in general, ... VII. Of sowing in general. VIII. Of Seeds, and to know the good from the bad. IX. Of Weeds in general, their Mischiefs and Cures. X. Of an invaluable Liquor never before published, to steep Grain in for Sowing. XI. Of a new Method of Horse-Houghing, its Advantages and Disadvantages. XII. Of Turneps, and how to save them from the Slug, Fly and Caterpillar. XIII. Salt, its several Uses on Ploughed and Sward-Grounds, and of the Quantities that may be necessarily consumed in one Year, by a fifty Pound a year Farmer. XIV. Of Manures in general, their Natures and Uses on proper Soils, &c.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: [1745]- Pictures
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Agriculture: a Chinese rice plantation with workers sowing the rice, and operating a treadmill chain-bucket for water. Engraving by W. Weatherhead, c. 1840, after T. Allom.
Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872.Date: 1840Reference: 496609i- Books
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By the King. A proclamation, prohibiting the planting, setting and sowing of tobacco in England and Ireland, according to an Act of Parliament herein specified.
England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II)Date: 1661. At the King's Printing-House in Black-Friers- Books
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By the King. A proclamation, prohibiting the planting, setting and sowing of tobacco in England and Ireland, according to an Act of Parliament herein specified.
England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II)Date: [1661]- Books
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By the King. A proclamation, prohibiting the planting, setting and sowing of tobacco in England and Ireland, according to an Act of Parliament herein specified.
England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II)Date: [1661]- Pictures
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An Arabic (?) man singing from a songbook; African or Indian men surveying the land; westerners sowing seed and reaping; smiths hammering iron. Engraving.
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Rules and conditions upon which the undertakers for sowing lint-seed or hemp-seed shall be entitled to the præmium of fifteen shillings per acre.
Great Britain. Commissioners and Trustees for Improving Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland.Date: 1740?]- Books
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The modern husbandman, for the month of April, Containing the following Particulars, Viz. I. A Case, shewing how a large Field was sown with Barley in a wrong Manner, and how a Farmer lost most of his Crop by it. II. Of Sowing Barley, Pease, and Thetches, &c. by the Drill-Plough. III. How a Gentleman made several Improvements in his Estate, by this Author's Directions. IV. The Value and Use of the Draught-Plough, for plowing Marsh-Lands and other Soils. V. Of a famous, small, cheap Tool, for cleaning Wheat, Barley, Pease, common Horse-Beans, and Tick-Beans, that supply the Place of the great Thirty Pounds Wire Screen, whereby a Person may obtain the Best of any of these [d]eeds. VI. Several Accounts and Improvements, from divers Parts of this Kingdom, published for the Imitation of others. Vii. Why it is too late to sow Wheat in this Month. To which are added, Many other Curious and Serviceable Matters, never before published. By William Ellis, A Farmer, of Little Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M.DCC.XLIV. [1744]- Books
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Some observations on the premiums Given by the Dublin Society, for sowing an acre of land with sixteen pounds of wheat. Published by order of the Dublin Society.
Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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Burkitt's observations on the inland navigation, draining of loughs making entrances into ports, and a bridge over the ferry of Wexford, and the benefits to be had by sowing of cole-seed.
Burkitt, Robert.Date: M,DCC,LV. [1755]- Pictures
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The patriarch Asher milking a goat, men ploughing and sowing the fields, and the goddess Ceres holding a scythe; a cornucopia lies on the ground. Etching by D. Coornhert after M. van Heemskerck.
Heemskerk, Martin van, 1498-1574.Date: [1550]Reference: 30141i- Books
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The mistery of husbandry discover'd. Containing several new and advantageous ways of tillage, sowing, planting, ... of all sorts of meadows, pasture, corn-land, ... As also of fruit ... By Tim Nourse, gent.
Nourse, Timothy, -1699.Date: 1708- Books
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Dictionarium rusticum & urbanicum: or, a dictionary of all sorts of country affairs, handicraft, trading, and merchandizing. Containing more particularly The whole Art of Gardening, viz. Sowing, Setting, Grafting, Transplanting, Salleting, &c. with the Names, Descriptions, and Uses, of all kinds of Plants, Flowers, and Fruits. The Raising and Ordering of all manner of Forest and Fruit-Trees, and Dwarfs. Agriculture in the various Parts of it, and the modern Improvements made therein. The Gentleman's Recreation; or the Arts of Hunting, Hawking, Fishing, Fowling, Ferreting, Cock-Fighting, &c. including (besides the several Animals) the Tackling, Nets, and different Instruments used therein. The Breeding, Feeding, and Managing of all sorts of Cartle, as also of Bees, Poultry, and Singing-Birds; with all their respective Diseases, and Cures. The preparing of all Sorts of English Liquors, common Eatables and Drinkables; with the several parts of Country Housewifry. The Digging, Refining, &c. of Minerals; Salt, and Sugar-Works; and the Arts of making Brick, Birdlime, Gunpowder, Shot, &c. Merchandizing, Trading, and Handicraft Terms and Instruments. The Produce, Manufactory, &c. of the Counties of England, and of Foreign Parts. The ancient Customs, and natural Rarities of England. Illustrated with cuts of all sorts of nets, traps, engines, &c.
Date: 1704- Books
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A compleat body of husbandry. Containing, rules for performing, in the most profitable manner, the whole business of the farmer and country gentleman. In Cultivating, Planting and Stocking of Land; in judging of the several Kinds of Seeds and Manures; and in the Management of Arable and Pasture Grounds: Together With The most approved Methods of Practice in the several Branches of Husbandry, from Sowing the Seed, to Getting in the Crop; and in Breeding and Preserving Cattle, and curing their Diseases. To Which IS Annexed, The whole Management of the Orchard, the Brewhouse, and the Dairy. Compiled from the original papers of the late Thomas Hale, Esq; And enlarged by many New and Useful Communications on Practical Subjects, from the Collections of Col. Stevenson, Mr. Randolph, Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Storey, Mr. Osborne, the Rev. Mr. Turner, and others. A Work founded on Experience, and calculated for general Benefit; consisting chiefly of Improvements made by modern Practitioners in Farming; and containing many valuable and useful Discoveries, never before published. Illustrated with a great Number of Cuts; some of which, particularly the Plans of small Farm Houses, are not contained in the English Edition. RE-Printed At the Request, and upon the Recommendation, of several Members of the Farmers Societies in Ireland. In four volumes.
Hale, Thomas, Esq.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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A compleat body of husbandry. Containing rules for performing, in the most profitable manner, the whole business of the farmer, and country gentleman, in Cultivating, Planting, and Stocking of Land; in Judging of the several Kinds of Seeds, and of Manures; and in the Management of Arable and Pasture Grounds: together with The most approved Methods of Practice in the several Branches of Husbandry, From Sowing the Seed, to Getting in the Crop; and In Breeding and Preserving Cattle, and Curing their Diseases. To which is annexed, The whole Management of the Orchard, the Brewhouse, and the Dairy. Compiled from the original papers of the late Thomas Hale, Esq; And enlarged by many New and Useful Communications on Practical Subjects, From the Collections of Col. Stevenson, Mr. Randolph, Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Storey, Mr. Osborne, the Rev. Mr. Turner, and others. A Work founded on Experience; and calculated for general Benefit; consisting chiefly of Improvements made by modern Practitioners in Farming; and containing many valuable and useful Discoveries, never before published. Illustrated with a great number of cuts, containing Figures of the Instruments of Husbandry; of useful and poisonous Plants, and various other Subjects, engraved from Original Drawings. Published by his Majesty's Royal Licence and Authority.
Hale, Thomas, Esq.Date: M.DCC.LVI. [1756] [1755-56]- Books
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Chiltern and vale farming explained, according to the latest improvements. Necessary for all landlords and tenants of either ploughed-grass, or wood-grounds. Containing, I. The Nature and Improvement of the four Clays, four Loams, four Gravels, four Chalks and three Sands, with an Account of the Nature and Use of Stones in the common Fields. II. The Nature and Improvement of the Oak, shewing seven several ways to obtain a Wood thereof; also of the Beech, the manner of extracting its Sap after three different Methods for its long duration. The Ash, Elm, Witch-Elm, Hornbeam, Maple, Lime, Sycamore, Horse and Sweet Chesnut, Walnut, Hazel, White-Elder, and the Case of the Black-Cherry. And also of Asp, Sallow, Poplar, Alder, and other Aquaticks. III. Of the Excellency of the Whitelamas-Wheat, and all other Wheats, Barley, Rye, Oats, Peas, Beans, Thetches and Tills; with a Copy of two Letters from William Hayton Esq; of Clerkenwell, and the Author's Answer concerning the Propagating of Wheat and Rye in Northumberland. Also an Estimate of the Loss and Profit of Crops for the Year 1732. IV. Of Natural and Artificial Grasses, being Remarks on a late Author's Writings on Trefoyl, Clover, St. Foyne, Lucern, Rye-Grass and Cow-Grass: Also a method how to save the difficult Seed of Lucern. V. Of the Blights and Blasts, their Origin and Nature, their Mischiefs and Preventions. VI. Of Ploughing in general, being a full Explanation of broad Land-Ploughing, Bouting-up, Thoroughing down, Four-Thoroughing, Hacking or Combing; also the Vale way of Ridging up and Casting down: With Descriptions and Dimensions of the Wheel-Ploughs, also of the Foot, Creeper, Kentish, Newmarket, and a New-Invented light Plough that does almost double work with the same Horses that draw a single one. Vii. Of Sowing in general. Viii. Of Seeds, and to know the Good from the Bad. IX. Of Weeds in general, their Mischiefs and Cures. X. Of an Invaluable Liquor never before published, to steep Grain in for Sowing. XI. Of a new Method of Horse-Houghing, its Advantages and Disadvantages. XII. Of Turneps, and how to save them from the Slug, Fly and Caterpillar. XIII. Its several Uses on Ploughed and Sward-Grounds, and of the Quantities that may be necessarily consumed in one Year, by a fifty Pound a year Farmer. XIV. Of Manures in general, their Nature and Uses on proper Soils, &c. By William Ellis, Of Little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire, Author of The Practical Farmer, or Hertfordshire Husbandman.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: [1733]- Books
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The practice of farming and husbandry in all sorts of soils, according to the latest improvements. Very useful for all Landlords and Tenants, of Ploughed, Grass, or Wood Lands, containing, I. The Nature and Improvement of the four Clays, four Loams, four Gravels, four Chalks and three Sands, with an Account of the Nature and Use of Stones in the common Fields. II. The Nature and Improvement of the Oak, shewing seven several ways to obtain a Wood thereof, also of the Beech, the manner of extracting its Sap after three different Methods for its long duration. The Ash, Elm, Witch-Elm, Horn-Beam, Maple, Lime, Sycamore, Horse and sweet Chesnut, Walnut, Hazel, White-Elder, and the Case of the Black-Cherry. And also of the Asp, Sallow, Poplar, Alder, and other Aquaticks. III. Of the excellency of the White-Lamas-Wheat, and all other Wheats, Barley, Rye, Oats, Peas, Beans, Thetches and Tills, with a Copy of two Letters from William Hayton, Esqr; of Clarkenwel, and the Author's Answer concerning the Propagating of Wheat and Rye in Northumberland. Also an Estimate of the Loss and Profit of Crops for one Year. IV. Of Natural and Artificial Grasses, being Remarks on a late Author's Writings on Trefoyl, Clover, St. Foyne, Lucern, Rye-Grass and Cow grass. Also a method how to save the Seed of Lucern. V. Of Blights and Blasts, their Origin and Nature, their Mischiefs and Preventions. VI. Of Ploughing in general, being a full Explanation of broad Land-Ploughing, Bouting up, Thoroughing down, four Thoroughing, Hacking or Combing; also the Vale way or Ridging up and Casting down: With Descriptions and Dimensions of the Wheel Ploughs, also of the Foot, Creeper, Kentish, Newmarket, and a new invented light Plough that does almost double work with the same Horses that draws a single one. Vii. Of Sowing in general. Viii. Of Seeds, and to know the Good from the Bad. IX. Of Weeds in general, their Mischiefs and Cures. X. Of an Invaluable Liquor never before published to steep Grain in for Sowing. XI. Of a new Method of Horse-Hoeing, its Advantages and Disadvantages. XII. Of Turneps, and how to save them from the Slug, Fly and Caterpillar. XIII. Salt, its several uses on Ploughed and Sward grounds, and of the Quantities that may be necessarily consumed in one Year, by a fifty Pound a Year Farmer. XIV. Of Manures in general, their Nature and Uses on proper Soils, &c.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M,DCC,LXV. [1765]- Books
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The practice of farming and husbandry in all sorts of soils, according to the latest improvements, very useful for all landlords and tenants, of Ploughed, Grass, or Wood Lands, containing, I. The Nature and Improvement of the four Clays, four Loams, four Gravels, four Chalks and three Sands, with an Account of the Nature and Use of Stones in the common Fields. II. The Nature and Improvement of the Oak, shewing seven several ways to obtain a Wood thereof, also of the Beech, the manner of extracting its Sap after three different Methods for its long duration. The Ash, Elm, Witch-Elm, Horn-Beam, Maple, Lime, Sycamore, Horse and sweet Chesnut, Walnut, Hazel. White-Older, and the Case of the Black-Cherry. And also of the Asp, Sallow, Poplar, Alder, and other Aquaticks. III. Of the excellency of the Whitelamas-Wheat, and all other Wheats, Barley, Rye, Oats, Peas, Beans, Thetches and Tills, with a Copy of two Letters from William Hayton Esqr; of Clarkenwel, and the Author's Answer concerning the Propagating of Wheat and Rye in Northumberland. Also an Estimate of the Loss and Profit of Crops for the Year 1732. IV. Of Natural and Artificial Grasses, being Remarks on a late Author's Writings on Trefoyl, Clover, St. Foyne, Lucern, Rye-Grass and Cow grass. Also a method how to save the difficult Seed of Lucern. V. Of Blights and Blasts, their Origin and Nature, their Mischiefs and Preventions. VI. Of Ploughing in general, being a full Explanation of broad Land ploughing, Bouting up, Thoroughing down, four Thoroughing, Hacking or Combing; also the Vale way or Ridging up and Casting down: With Descriptions and Dimensions of the Wheel Ploughs; also of the Foot, Creeper, Kentish, Newmaker, and a new invented light Plough that does almost double work with the same Horses that draws a single one. VII. Of Sowing in general. VIII. Of Seeds, and to know the Good from the Bad. IX. Of Weeds in general, their Mischiefs and Cures. X. Of an Invaluable Liquor never before published, to steep Grain in for Sowing. XI. Of a new Method of Horse-Hoeing its Advantages and Disadvantages. XII. Of Turneps, and how to save them from the Slug, Fly and Caterpillar. XIII. Salt, its several uses on Ploughed and Sward grounds, and of the Quantities that may be necessarily consumed in one Year, by a fifty Pound a Year Farmer. XIV. Of Manures in general, their Nature and Uses on proper Soils, &c.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: M.DCC.XXXV. [1735]- Books
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Gardening improv'd: containing 1. The clergyman's recreation; Shewing The Pleasure and Profit of the Art of Gardening. Wherein is treated, 1. Of preparing the Ground for Planting and Sowing. 2. Of the Method of planting Fruit-Trees in Gardens. 3. Of the most agreeable Disposition for a Garden. 4. Of Nurseries. 5. Of Pruning. 6. Of Grafting and Inoculating. 7. Of the proper Disposition of Trees against a Wall, the best kinds of each, their Order and Time of ripening, &c. II. The gentleman's recreation: Or, The Second Part of the Art of Gardening improved. Containing several New Experiments and Curious Observations relating to Fruit-Trees; particularly a new Method of Building Walls with Horizontal Shelters. Illustrated with Copper Plates. Both written by John Lawrence, M.A. Rector of Yelvertoft in Northamptonshire. III. The lady's recreation: Or, The Art of Gardening farther improved. Containing the best Ways of propagating all Sorts of Flowers, Flower-Trees, and Shrubs, &c. The most commodious Methods for Erecting Green-Houses, &c. Of Plantations in Avenues, Walks, Wildernesses, &c. With the Gardener's compleat Calendar: Or, The Art of managing both the First-Garden and Kitchen Garden every Month in the Year. By Charles Evelyn, Esq; To which is added, a letter to the author, containing some Curious Observations concerning Variegated Greens, by J. Lawrence. M.A. Rector of Yelvertoft in Northamptonshire.
Laurence, John, 1668-1732.Date: MDCCXVIII. [1718]- Books
The sow, improving her efficiency / Peter R. English, William J. Smith, Alastair MacLean.
English, Peter R.Date: [1977]- Books
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The advantages, which may arise to the people of Ireland by raising of flax and flax-seed, considered. Together with instructions for sowing and saving the seed, and Preparing the Flax for the Market. Drawn up and published by the direction of the Dublin Society.
Slator, Lionel.Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]- Pictures
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A sow walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.Date: 1887Reference: 2011316iPart of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements- Pictures
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A sow walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.Date: 1887Reference: 2011315iPart of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements