The history of the world, commonly called the Naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus (1634)
Pliny, the Elder, Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637, tr · London, A. Islip · leaf 465
mong us, are by cutting andpt^tning every yeare kept downe : fo as alLtheii-whole ftrength is either drawne withoutrteJijVitfcj Mbranches,or els downward into the root for to put out ncwfboots ever frefti out of the grpuhd^and regard is onely had of thefruit and juice that ihey doc yeetd diverle… … Plinies Natural! Hiftorie, 405 A unto them: and fo being fuffered to wind and clalpc about them as their husb3nds,yca,and withtheir wanton armes or tendrils to climbc aloftjand with their joints to run up their boughesjtheyreach up to their head, yea^and overtop them: infomuch as the grape-gatherer…
Pre-Linnean works · Natural history
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