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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
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The New-England farmer; or Georgical dictionary . Containing a compendious account of the ways and methods in which the important art of husbandry, in all its various branches, is, or may be, practised, to the greatest advantage, in this country. By Samuel Deane, D.D. vicepresident of Bowdoin College, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Deane, Samuel 1733-1814.Date: 1797