....

{39:1}

.....Aurea durae
Mala ferant quercus.

_Ecl. 8._

{39:2}

Glandemque sues fregere sub Ulmo.

_Geor._

{41:1} Which yet some, upon good experience will not allow in
transplanting young Oaks; affirming the taking them up without any
abatement, or the least wound, does exceedingly advance the growth of
this tree above such as are depriv'd of it.

{41:2}

.......Quae quantum vertice ad auras
AEthereas, tantum radice in Tartara tendit.

_Geo._ l. 2.

{42:1}

Quinetiam Coeli regionem in cortice signant,
Ut quo quaeque modo steterit, qua parte calores
Austrinos tulerit, quae terga obverterit axi,
Restituant: Adeo in teneris consuescere multum est.

_Geor._ li. 1.

{52:1}

Quatuor ex lignis domini crux dicitur esse, &c.
Pes crucis est cedrus, corpus tenet alta cupressus;
Palma manus retinet, titulo laetatur oliva.

{54:1} And therefore were joyners called intestinary. See Leg. 2. _Cod.
Theodos._

{57:1}

.........Et querna glande repasta
AEquasse annosas vivendo corpora Quercus.

{58:1}

Foelix illa aetas mundi, justissima nymphe,
Cum dabat umbra domum vivam tua, cum domus ipsa
Decidua dominos pascebat fruge quietos,
Solaque praebebant sylvestria poma secundas
Gramineis epulas mensis; nondum arte magistra
Arbor adulteriis praeluserat insita nostris, &c.

_Couleii_ Pl. _l._ 6.

{58:2} Cap. I. Book III.

{62:1} Of the ilex and cork (reckon'd among the glandiferus) see Book
II. cap. V. and of the sacred and mysterious Missalto, Book III. cap.
I.; see also more of _quercus_, Mr. Ray's _Hist. Plan._ tom. III. cap.
_De Quercus_, tom. II. p. 1390.

{62:2}

Si quando armandae naves, & bella paranda,
Det quercus nautis tabulata, det arma furori
Bellantum; det ligna foco, det aratra colono,
Aut aliis alios porro sumatur in usus.

_Rapinus._

CHAPTER IV.

_Of the Elm._

1. _Ulmus_ the elm, there are four or five sorts, and from the
difference of the soil and air divers spurious: Two of these kinds are
most worthy our culture, the vulgar, viz. the mountain elm, which is
taken to be the _oriptelea_ of Theophrastus; being of a less jagged and
smaller leaf; and the _vernacula_ or French elm, whose leaves are
thicker, and more florid, glabrous and smooth, delighting in the lower
and moister grounds, where they will sometimes rise to above an hundred