The English Husbandman - The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature - of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and - the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments

Gervase Markham

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Title: The English Husbandman
The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature
of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and
the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments
Author: Gervase Markham
Release Date: October 12, 2007 [EBook #22973]
Language: English
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Contents
To the Right Honovrable, and his singular good Lord, the Lord
Clifton, Baron of Layton.
The Epistle to the generall and gentle Reader.
A Former Part, before the first Part: Being an absolute perfect
Introduction into all the Rules of true Husbandry; and must
first of all be read, or the Readers labour will be frustrate.
Chap. I. The Proem of the Author. What a Husbandman is:
His Vtilitie and Necessitie.Chap. II. Of the situation of the Husbandmans house; the
necessaries there to belonging, together with the
modell thereof.
Chap. III. Of the seuerall parts and members of an ordinarie
Plough, and of the ioyning of them together.
Chap. IIII. How the Husbandman shall temper his Plough,
and make her fit for his worke.
Chap. V. The manner of Plowing the rich, stiffe, blacke Clay,
his Earings, Plough, and other Instruments.
Chap. VI. The manner of plowing the white or gray Clay, his
Earings, Plough, and Instruments.
Chap. VII. The manner of plowing the red-Sand, his Earings,
Plough, and Implements.
Chap. VIII. The manner of plowing the white Sand, his
Earings, Plough, and Implements.
Chap. IX. The manner of plowing the Grauell with Pible
stones, or the Grauell with Flint, their Earings, Plough,
and implements.
Chap. X. The manner of plowing the blacke Clay mixt with
red Sand, and the white Clay mixt with white Sand,
their Earings, Plough and Implements.
The First Part of the English Husbandman: Contayning, the manner
of plowing and Manuring all sorts of Soyles, together with the
manner of planting and setting of Corne.
Chap. I. Of the manner of plowing all simple Earths, which
are vncompounded.
Chap. II. Of the manner of plowing the blacke clay mixt with
white sand, and the white clay mixt with red sand:
their Earrings, Plough, and Implements.
Chap. III. A comparison of all the former soyles together,
and most especiall notes for giuing the ignorant
Husbandman perfect vnderstanding, of what is written
before.
Chap. IIII. Of the planting or setting of Corne, and the profit
thereof.
Chap. V. Of the choice of seede-Corne, and which is best
for which soyle.
Chap. VI. Of the time of Haruest and the gathering in of
Corne.
The Second Part of the First Booke of the English Husbandman,
Contayning the Art of Planting, Grafting and Gardening,
either for pleasure or profit; together with the vse and
ordering of Woodes.
Chap. I. Of the Scyte, Modell, Squares, and Fashion of a
perfect Orchard.
Chap. II. Of the Nurserie where you shall set all manner of
Kernels, and Stones, for the furnishing of the Orchard.
Chap. III. Of the setting or planting of the Cyons or
Branches of most sorts of Fruit-trees.
Chap. IIII. Of the ordinary and accustomed manner of
Grafting all sorts of Fruit-trees.
Chap. V. Of diuers other wayes of grafting, their vses and
purposes.
Chap. VI. Of the replanting of Trees, and furnishing the
Orchard.
Chap. VII. Of the Dressing, Dungging, Proyning, and
Preseruing of Trees.
Chap. VIII. Of the Vine, and of his ordering.
Chap. IX. The office of the Fruiterrer, or the Gatherer, and
keeper, of Fruit.Chap. X. Of the making of Cyder, or Perry.
Chap. XI. Of the Hoppe-garden, and first of the ground and
situation thereof.
Chap. XII. Of the ordering of the Garden, and placing of the
Hils.
Chap. XIII. Of the gathering of Hoppes, and the preseruing
of the Poales.
Chap. XIIII. Of drying, and not drying of Hoppes, and of
packing them when they are dried.
Chap. XV. The office of the Gardiner, and first of the Earth,
Situation, and fencing of a Garden for pleasure.
Chap. XVI. Of the fashion of the garden-plot for pleasure,
the Alleyes, Quarters, Digging and Dungging of the
same.
Chap. XVII. Of the adornation and beautifying of the Garden
for pleasure.
Chap. XVIII. How for the entertainment of any great Person,
in any Parke, or other place of pleasure, where
Sommer-bowers are made, to make a compleat
Garden in two or three dayes.
Chap. XIX. How to preserue Abricots, or any kinde of
curious outlandish-stone-fruit, and make them beare
plentifully be the Spring or beginning of Summer neuer
so bitter.
Chap. XX. How to make Grapes grow as bigge, full, and as
naturally, and to ripen in as due season, and be as
long lasting as either in Fraunce or Spaine.THE
ENGLISH
HVSBANDMAN.
The first Part:
CONTAYNING
the Knowledge of the true Nature
of euery Soyle within this Kingdome:
how to Plow it; and the manner of the
Plough, and other Instruments
belonging thereto.
TOGETHER WITH THE
Art of Planting, Grafting, and Gardening
after our latest and rarest fashion.
A worke neuer written before by any Author:
and now newly compiled for the benefit
of this Kingdome.
By G. M.
Bramo assai, poco, spero nulla chieggio.
LONDON:
Printed by T. S. for Iohn Browne, and are to be sould
at his shop in Saint Dunstanes Church-yard.
1613. [ ¶ 2 ]
TO THE RIGHT
HONOVRABLE,
and his singular good Lord,
the Lord Clifton, Baron of
Layton.
t was a custome (right Honorable, and my
most singular good Lord) both amongst the
auntient Romans, and also amongst the
wise Lacedemonians, that euery idle person
should giue an account of the expence of his howers: Now I
that am most idle, and least imployed in your Familie,
present here vnto your Lordships hands an account of the
expence of my idle time, which how well, or ill, it is, your
Noble wisedome must both iudge and correct; onely this I
am acertain'd, that for the generall rules and Maximes of the
whole worke, they are most infallibly true, and perfectly
agreeing with our English climate. Now if your Lordship
shall doubt of the true tast of the liquor because it
proceedeth from such a vessell as my selfe, whom you may
imagine vtterly vnseasoned vvith any of these knowledges,
[ ¶ 3 ] beleeue it (my most best Lord) that for diuers yeeres,
wherein I liued most happily, I liued a Husbandman,
amongst Husbandmen of most excellent knowledge; during
all which time I let no obseruation ouer-slip me: for I haue
euer from my Cradle beene naturally giuen to obserue, and
albe I haue not that oylie tongue of ostentation which loueth
euer to be babling all, and somewhat more then it knoweth,
drawing from ignorance admiration, and from wisedome
laughter, filling meale-times with much vnprofitable noyse;
yet I thanke my maker I haue a breast which containeth
contentment inough for my selfe, and I hope much benefit
for the whole Kingdome; how euer or whatsoeuer it is, it is
all your Lordships, vnder the couert of whose fauourable
protection if it may finde grace it is the vttermost aime
whereunto my wishes aspire, nor shall I feare the malignitie
of the curious, for it is not to them but the honest plaine
English Husbandman, I intend my labours, vvhose
defender you haue euer beene, and for whose Honorabledefender you haue euer beene, and for whose Honorable
prosperitie both they and I will continually pray.
Your honours in all
seruiceable humblenesse,
G. M.
[ A ]
The Epistle to the generall and
gentle Reader.
lthough (generall reader) the nature of this
worst part of this last age hath conuerted all
things to such vildnesse that whatsoeuer is
truely good is now esteemed most vitious,
learning being derided, fortitude drawne into
so many definitions that it consisteth in meere words onely,
and although nothing is happy or prosperous, but meere
fashion & ostentation, a tedious fustian-tale at a great mans
table, stuft with bigge words, with out sence, or a mimicke
Iester, that can play three parts in one; the Foole, the
Pandar and the Parasit, yet notwithstanding in this apostate
age I haue aduentured to thrust into the world this booke,
which nothing at all belongeth to the silken scorner, but to
the plaine russet honest Husbandman, for whose particular
benefit, and the kingdomes generall profit, I haue with much
paine, care, and industry, passed through the same. Now
for the motiues which first