When ships for bloody combat we prepare, Oak affords plank, and arms our men of war; Maintains our fires, makes ploughs to till the ground, For use no timber like the oak is found.{ 62:2}
(Cærula distinguens inter plaga currere posset Per tumulos, & convalles, camposque profusa: Ut nunc esse vides vario distincta lepôre Omnia, que pomis intersita dulcibus ornant Arbustisque tenent felicibus obsita circum).
{ 37:1} See what Vossius has written in his Observations on Catullus, p. 204. _Indomitus turbo contorquens flamine_......
{ 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.
.......Quæ quantum vertice ad auras Æthereas, tantum radice in Tartara tendit.
Quinetiam Cœli regionem in cortice signant, Ut quo quæque modo steterit, quâ parte calores Austrinos tulerit, quæ terga obverterit axi, Restituant: Adeo in teneris consuescere multum est.
Quatuor ex lignis domini crux dicitur esse, &c. Pes crucis est cedrus, corpus tenet alta cupressus; Palma manus retinet, titulo lætatur oliva.
{ 54:1} And therefore were joyners called intestinary. See Leg. 2. _Cod. Theodos._
.........Et quernâ glande repasta Æquâsse annosas vivendo corpora Quercus.
Fœlix illa ætas mundi, justissima nymphe, Cùm dabat umbra domum vivam tua, cùm domus ipsa Deciduâ dominos pascebat fruge quietos, Soláque præbebant sylvestria poma secundas Gramineis epulas mensis; nondum arte magistra Arbor adulteriis præluserat insita nostris, &c.
{ 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.
Si quando armandæ naves, & bella paranda, Det quercus nautis tabulata, det arma furori Bellantum; det ligna foco, det aratra colono, Aut aliis alios porro sumatur in usus.
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 foot in height, and a prodigious growth, in less than an age; my self having seen one planted by the hand of a Countess living not long since, which was near 12 foot in compass, and of an height proportionable; notwithstanding the numerous progeny which grew under the shade of it, some whereof were at least a foot in diameter, that for want of being seasonably transplanted, must needs have hindered the procerity of their ample and indulgent mother: I am persuaded some of these were _viviradices_, & _traduces_, produc’d of the falling seeds.