Dictionarium rusticum, urbanicum & botanicum

Or, a dictionary of husbandry, gardening, trade, commerce, and all sorts of country affairs. Containing more particularly, I. The whole art of gardening, viz. sowing, setting, grafting, inoculating, transplanting, salleting, &c. with the names, descriptions, and uses, of most sorts of plants, flowers, and fruits. II. The raisign and ordering of all manner of forest and fruit-trees, both standards and dwarfs. III Agriculture, or the art of husbandry, in the various parts of it, with the modern improvements made therein. IV. The gentleman's recreation; or the arts of riding, the manag'd horse, hunting, ferreting, hawking, fowling, cock-fighting, fishing, &c. including not only an accurate description of the several animals, but even of the tackle, nets, gins, and traps, different instruments us'd in those sports. V. The farrier's art, with those of the horsemanship and manage. Also a particular account of every disease incident to a horse, with its causes, symptoms, effects, &c. and a view of the most proper and approved remedies. VI. The breeding, feeding, and managing of all sorts of cattle; as also of bees, silk-worms, poultry, and singing-birds; with all their respective diseases, and cures. VII. The preparing of many sorts of English liquors, common eatables and drinkables; with the several parts of country housewifry. VIII The digging, refining, &c. of metals and minerals; salt, and sugar-works; the art of making bricks, bird-lime, gun-powder, shot, &c. IX. Terms made use of in merchandizing, traffick, and trade; with handicraft-terms and instruments, country-words, &c. X. An account of coins, weights and measures, domestick and foreign with their respective values and capacities. XI. The productons, manufactures, &c. of the counties of England, and even of the most remarkable foreign countries. XII. A collection of the principal statute-laws, relating to tenures and country-affairs, especially those of the forests, with the functions of field and forest-officers; also the ancient customs, and natural rarities of Great Britain

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