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A26231 A dialogue (or familiar discourse) and conference betweene the husbandman and fruit-trees in his nurseries, orchards, and gardens wherein are discovered many usefull and profitable observations and experriments [sic] in nature, in the ordering fruit-trees for temporall profitt ... / by Ra. Austen ... Austen, Ralph, d. 1676. 1676 (1676) Wing A4233; ESTC R5888 40,239 128

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