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inquiry, '' What are the actual defects and omissions, 

 as also the possible improvements in English hus- 

 bandry ?" 



The edition of 1655, in the British Museum, has the 

 title : '^ Samuel Harthb his Legacy of Husbandry. 

 Wherein are bequeathed to the Common- wealth of Eng- 

 land, not only Braband and Flanders, but also manymore 

 Outlandish and Domestick Experiments and Secrets 

 (of Gabriel Plats and others) never heretofore divulged 

 in reference to Universal Husbandry. With a Table 

 shewing the general Contents or Sections of the several 

 Augmentations and enriching Enlargements of this 

 Third Edition. — ^London, Printed by J. M. for Eichard 

 Woodnothe, in Leaden- [hall] Street, next to the 

 Golden-Heart. 1655.'^ 



The work varies from the edition of 1651, as it com- 

 mences with 11 pages of " Contents or Sections -/' ex- 

 tracts on two leaves by way of *' An Introduction,^^ and 

 contains, in 303 pages of small type closely printed, ^^ A 

 large Letter concerning the Defects and Eemedies of 

 English Husbandry, written to Mr. Samuel Hartlib -j" 

 with various other letters and annotations. 



At page 104, an experiment on Barley-corn is given 

 in a letter signed C. D., 1650, followed by a letter 

 '^ upon the foregoing secret," speaking of ^' Mr. Dy- 

 mock^s great experiment on his Pease and Barley," 

 signed B. W. 



C. D. writes again, p. 108 — 111. 



