The English Husbandman (The Second Booke)

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...

Againe, if Christmas day shall fall vpon the Sunday, the yéere shall be good, seasonable and abounding with all store and plenty: if it fall vpon Munday the yéere shall be reaso...

Then _Time_, of which are also two kindes, the running _Time_, and the Garden _Time_: they delight in fertile ground, and from the séede are very slow of growth, therefore it is...

_Skerrets_ are a delicate roote, white, tender, and pleasant, little differing in tast or excellencie from the _Eringo_. They delight in a rich mould, moyst and well broken, and...

Not vnlike vnto this is your _Daffadill_ of all kindes and colours, and in the same earths and seasons delighteth either to be sowen or planted, and will in the same manner as y...

Whosoeuer be a Lord or Master of much vnder-wood, which is indéede young spring-wood of all kindes, growing thicke and close together, either from the séede, as is declared in t...

Now if you would chuse Timber for weather-boards, or to be vsed in water-workes, or to make Planks for low moyst Vaults, then you shall chuse the biggest, soundest and smoothest...

The Ozier to come to his true profit and season asketh much pruning and trimming, as namely you must kéepe the stocke lowe, and neuer aboue halfe a foote aboue the earth, you mu...

In the eating of your Pasture grounds, are many things to be obserued, as first for the féeding of your fat Cattell, you must by all meanes be sure that they haue full bite, whi...

To procéede then in an orderly manner to the cures: Euery husbandman must know that all diseases in a horse are inward or outward: inward as offending the vitall parts, or outwa...