The country gentleman's companion. Or, Ancient husbandry restored; and modern husbandry improved. Shewing: I. The most expeditious manner of raising and propagating foreign sallads and other kitchen plants. II. The method of burning clay. III. The great improvement of land by grass seeds. IV. The excellency of the medicago, or cythisus maranthae of the ancients / [Stephen Switzer].
- Switzer, Stephen, 1682?-1745.
- Date:
- 1732
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London : T. Astley, 1732.
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x, 78, xxii, 79 (i.e. 81) pages : illustrations, folded plan ; (8vo)
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References note
ESTC T34233
Henrey, 1407
Notes
The 1st part has special t.p.: A compendious method for the raising of the Italian brocoli, and other foreign kitchen-vegetables. As also an account of the La Lucerne, St. Foyne, clover, and other grass-seeds. With the method of burning of clay, 5th ed. 1731; the 2d part has special t.p.: A dissertation on the true cythisus of the ancients. 1731
Error in paging, pt. 2: 37-38 repeated in numbering.
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