LIBER XVI · CAPUT 19
DIVISION OF TREES INTO VARIOUS SPECIES
Latine · Mayhoff 1906
Praeterea arborum aliis decidunt folia, aliae sempiterna coma virent, quam differentiam antecedat necesse est prior. sunt enim arborum quaedam omnino silvestres, quaedam urbaniores, quoniam his placet nominibus distinguere ac mites, quae fructu aut aliqua dote umbrarumque officio humanius iuvant, non improbe dicantur urbanae.
English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57
In addition to these particulars, some of the trees lose their leaves, while others, again, are evergreens. Before, however, we treat of this distinction, it will be necessary first to touch upon another. There are some trees that are altogether of a wild nature, while there are others, again, that are more civilized, such being the names by which man has thought fit to distinguish the trees. Indeed, these last, which by their fruits or some other beneficial property, or else by the shade which they afford, show themselves the benefactors of man, are not inappropriately called “civilized” trees.