1698 Agriculture Husbandry Farming Gardening Seeds Fishing Fowling Worlidge

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John Worlidge or John Woolridge (1640–1700)was a noted British agriculturalist, who lived in Petersfield, Hampshire,England. He was considered a great expert on rural affairs, and one of thefirst British agriculturalists to discuss the importance of farming as anindustry.

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Mainauthor: John Worlidge

Title: Systemaagriculturæ : the mystery of husbandry discovered. Treating of the several newand most advantagious ways of tilling, planting, sowing, manuring, ordering,improving of all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands,woods & coppices. . . With an account of the several instruments andengines used in this profession. To which is added Kalendarium rusticum: or,The husbandmans monthly directions. Also the prognosticks of dearth, scarcity,plenty, sickness, heat, cold, frost, snow, winds, rain, hail, thunder, &c.And Dictionarium rusticum: or, The interpretation of rustick terms. The wholework being of great use and advantage to all that delight in that most noble practise.The fourth edition carefully corrected and amended, with one whole sectionadded, and many large and useful additions throughout the whole work. By J.W.Gent.

Published: London : printed, and are to be sold by JohnTaylor, at the Ship in St. Paul\'s Church-Yard, M dc xcviii. [1698]

Language: English

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Pages:complete with all 326 pages; plus indexes, prefaces, and such

Publisher: London : printed, and are to be sold by JohnTaylor, at the Ship in St. Paul\'s Church-Yard, M dc xcviii. [1698]

Size: 12.5in x 8in (31cm x 20cm)

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John Worlidge or John Woolridge (1640–1700)was a noted British agriculturalist, who lived in Petersfield, Hampshire,England.[1] He was considered a great expert on rural affairs, and one of thefirst British agriculturalists to discuss the importance of farming as anindustry.

Contents[hide]

1 Works

1.1 Systima Agriculture (1668)

1.2 Other works

2 Selected Publications

3 References

Works[edit]

Systima Agriculture (1668)[edit]

Systema agriculturae, title plate 1668.

Worlidge\'s Systema Agriculturæ, or the Mysteryof Husbandry discovered ... by J. W., Gent., was first published in 1668.Worlidge appears to have carefully studied the writings of his predecessors,Anthony Fitzherbert, Sir Richard Weston, Robert Child, Walter Blith, GabrielPlattes, Sir Hugh Plat, and the anonymous writers whose works were published bySamuel Hartlib.[2]

This work treats of improvements in general,of enclosing meadows and pastures, and of watering and draining them, ofclovers, vetches, spurry, Wiltshire long-grass (probably that of the meadows ofSalisbury), hemp, flax, rape, turnips, &c A Persian wheel was made by hisdirection in Wiltshire, in 1665, that carried water in good quantity abovetwenty feet high, for watering meadows, and another near Godalming in Surrey.Sowing clover and other seeds preserved the cattle in the fatal winter of 1673,in the southern parts of England; whereas in the western and northern, throughdefect of hay and pasture, the greater part of their cattle perished. Hopsenough were not planted, but we imported them from the Netherlands of a qualitynot so good as our own. The authors lie chiefly quotes are Weston, Hartlib, andBlythe.[3]

Worlidge\'s system of husbandry may be regardedas gathering into a focus the scattered information published during the periodof the Commonwealth. This work went through a number of editions (1675, 1681,1687, 1716) before it was supplanted in popular favour by the numerousagricultural reference books which are a feature of the eighteenth century.[2]

Other works[edit]

In his notable 1776 book, Vinetum britannicum,Worlidge advocated the production of cider over that of wine in Great Britainbecause it was better suited to the climate and resources.

Beside Systema Agriculturae (1669) onhusbandry, and Vinetum Brittannicum on wine, Worlidge rote Systema Horticulturae(1677) on gardening.