@article{670355,
      recid = {670355},
      author = {Switzer, Stephen,},
      title = {The country gentleman's companion Or, Ancient husbandry  restored; and modern husbandry improved. By Stephen  Switzer, gardiner. Shewing, I. The most expeditions manner  of raising and propagating foreign sallads and other  kitchen plants, viz. Italian brocoli, Spanish cardoon,  celeriac, finochi, &c. rendring them more useful dishes  than they have hitherto been. II. The method of buring  clay, proving it to be not only the cheapest, but the best  discovery for the improvement of land, especially that  which is cold and poor, ever yet practiced. Invented by the  Right Honourable George Earl of Halifax. III. The great  improvement of land by grass seeds, viz. The Lucerne, St.  Foyne, Clover, Reygre, Trefoyle, &c. The quantities to  be sown on an acre and the soil proper for the reception of  each kind of seed. IV. The excellency of the medicago, or  cythisus maranthae of the ancients; demonstrating that  plant, (so much esteemed by the Romans) to be the best  fodder for all kinds of cattle, poultry, bees, &c. from  its hardiness, being capable of enduring the severest  weather, and prospering on the most barren, dry land; fully  answering the character given of it by columella, cato,  pliny, varrro, virgil, &c. With a detection of the  errors of some writers relating to this plant. [electronic  resource] :},
      publisher = {Printed for T. Astley at the Rose in St. Paul's  Church-Yard; and sold at the Seed Shop in  Westminster-hall,},
      address = {London :},
      pages = {[2],x,78;xxii,79[i.e 81],[1]p.,plate :},
      year = {1732},
      note = {This comprises the author's two separate works: A  compendious method for the raising of the Italian brocoli,  Spanish cardoon, celeriac, finochi, and other foreign  kitchen vegetables .. 1731, and A dissertation on the true  Cythisus of the ancients .. 1731, bound under one common  title.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/670355},
}