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The English Husbandman (The Second Booke): $b Contayning the Ordering of the Kitchin-Garden, and the Planting of strange flowers: the breeding of all manner of Cattell.Markham, Gervase

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The English Husbandman (The Second Booke): $b Contayning the Ordering of the Kitchin-Garden, and the Planting of strange flowers: the breeding of all manner of Cattell.

Name: The English Husbandman (The Second Booke): $b Contayning the Ordering of the Kitchin-Garden, and the Planting of strange flowers: the breeding of all manner of Cattell.
Author: Markham, Gervase

Markham, Gervase

Agriculture -- Early works to 1800; Agriculture -- England -- Early works to 1800; Gardening -- Early works to 1800; Gardening -- England -- Early works to 1800

Transcriber’s Note

Spellings are inconsistent, especially the use of ée and ee. Words
remain as presented in the original, including the use of u/v and i/j.

Note that while the title page and contents reference a “Tretise, called
Goodmens Recreation” regarding angling and the fighting cocke [sic]
this content was not in the original scan and thus is not included here.




  THE
  Second Booke of the
  English Husbandman.

         *       *       *       *       *

  CONTAYNING
  the Ordering of the Kitchin-Garden,
  and the Planting of strange Flowers:
  the breeding of all manner of CATTELL.
  Together with the Cures, the feeding of
  _Cattell, the Ordering both of Pastures and_
  Meddow-ground: with the vse both
  of high-wood and vnder-wood.

  _WHEREVNTO IS ADDED_
  a TREATISE, called _Goodmens Recreation_:
  Contayning a Discourse of the generall Art
  of Fishing, with the Angle, and otherwise;
  and of all the hidden secrets belonging
  thereunto.

  _TOGETHER_
  With the Choyce, Ordering, Breeding, and Dyeting
  of the fighting Cocke.

  A worke neuer written before by any Author.

         *       *       *       *       *

  By G. M.

         *       *       *       *       *

  LONDON:
  Printed by _T.S._ for _Iohn Browne_, and are to be sould at his
  shop in _S. Dunstanes_ Church-yard in Fleetstreet. 1614.




[Illustration]

A Table of all the principall matters contayned in this Booke.

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CHAP. I.

How the Husbandman shall iudge and fore-know all kinde of weather, and
other seasons of the yeere.

  _Of Raine._
  _Signes from clouds._
  _Signes from the Moone._
  _Signes from the Sun._
  _Signes from Lightning._
  _Signes from Fowle._
  _Signes from Beasts._
  _Signes from things without Motion._
  _Signes of much Raine._
  _Signes of Snow or Hayle._
  _Signes of Winde._
  _Signes of Tempests._
  _Signes of faire weather._
  _Signes of Winter._
  _Signes of the Spring._
  _Signes of a hot summer._
  _Signes of a long winter._
  _Signes of a forward or backward yeere._
  _Signes of a good or bad yeere._
  _Signes from Christmas day._
  _Signes from the sunne rising._
  _Signes from the twelue dayes in Christmas._
  _Signes from _S. Paules_ day._
  _Signes from _Maudlin_ and _S. Switthens_ day,
    if Corne shall be cheap or deere._
  _Signes from Thunder._
  _Signes of sickenesse or health._
  _The preseruation of health._

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CHAP. II.

The choyse of Grounds for the Kitchin-Garden, and the ordering thereof.

The Contents.

  _The choyce of Ground._
  _The bettering of Grounds._
  _The trenching of Grounds._
  _Of breaking the Garden-mould._
  _Ordering of Garden-beds._
  _Of the fruitfull soyle._
  _The necessariest ornament in a Garden._

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CHAP. III.

Of the Sowing and Ordering of all manner Pot Hearbes.

The Contents.

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The English Husbandman (The Second Booke): $b Contayning the Ordering of the Kitchin-Garden, and the Planting of strange flowers: the breeding of all manner of Cattell.

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