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1600. Surflet, Country Farm, II. liv. 383. You shall plant their shootes after the same manner, in a well husbanded and digged ground.
1641. Milton, Animadv., 52. A well-husbanded nursery of plants and fruits.
1885. Ruskin, Ulric Farm Serv., Pref. p. v. In the quiet mornings of his well husbanded and well spent days.
