LIBER XVI · CAPUT 9
TREES OF WHICH THE BARK IS USED
Latine · Mayhoff 1906
Cortex et fagis, tiliae, abieti, piceae in magno usu agrestium. vasa eo corbesque ac patentiora quaedam messibus convehendis vindemiisque faciunt atque protecta tuguriorum. scribit in recenti ad duces explorator incidens litteras a suco. nec non et in quodam usu sacrorum religiosus est fagi cortex. sed non durat arbor ipsa.
English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57
The bark also of the beech, the lime, the fir, and the pitch-tree is extensively used by the peasantry. Panniers and baskets are made of it, as also the large flat hampers which are employed for the carriage of corn and grapes: roofs of cottages, too, are made of this material. When a spy has been sent out he often leaves information for his general, written upon fresh bark, by cutting letters in the parts of it that are the most juicy. The bark of the beech is also employed for religious purposes in certain sacred rites. This tree, however, when deprived of its bark, will not survive.