a poetical composition upon the subject of husbandry, containing rules therein, put into a pleasing drefs, and set off with all the beauties and embellishments of poetry. The word is borrowed from the Latin georgicus, and that of the Greek ἀγροτικός, of ἄγρος, "earth," and ὕπαξεμα, ὑπερο, "I work, or labour," of ὑπερο, opus, "work." Hesiod and Virgil are the two greatest masters in this kind of poetry. The moderns have produced nothing in this kind, except Rapin's book of Gardening; and the celebrated poem intitled Cyder, by Mr Philips, who, if he had enjoyed the advantage of Virgil's language, would have been second to Virgil in a much nearer degree.