plantage

plural plantages

1. countableuncountablePlants, vegetation; specifically, the planting or cultivation of plants.

   As true as steel, as plantage to the moon.

   c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]

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   And thus from Maries Wombe [footnote: Isaiah 23:2] a Plant proceeded, Which neither setting, neither plantage needed.

   1634, Charles Fitz-Geffry, The blessed birth-day celebrated in some pious meditations, on the angels anthem, page 11

   The jealous matrone with suspitious eye, Did read their common ill in every face, Espyde the breach of their virginity, And fear'd a plantage with an infant race.

   1637, Nathaneel Whiting, The pleasant historie of Albino and Bellama, page 82

   And notwithstanding that for the space of 12 miles round about Rome, there are neither Cornes nor Wines, nor Village, Plantage, or Cultinage, save onely playne and pastoragious fields;[…]

   1640, William Lithgow, The totall discourse, of the rare adventures, and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travailes from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes […] , page 14

   From 1890, when the McKinley bill passed, nursery products had steadily declined, until to-day many articles were being offered at rates below the actual cost of production, so that the people who favored the restoration of the duty have lived to see their prophesies falsified, because the result has not been to decrease the plantage and increase the price, but has had exactly the opposite effect.

   1894 July, “The American Association: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting at Niagara Falls”, in The National Nurseryman, volume 2, number 6, page 74

   A one-bottom plantage plough does not fully turn the slice and leaves an uneven soil profile resulting in alternating bands of the plant stand in the first year. Due to this fact the plantage results in additional yields, but these are not so high as after the more proper transfer (or mixing) horizons[…]

   1967, A. S. Alov, “Soil selection. 1. Methods of the use of lower horizons to raise soil fertility”, in Agrochimica, volume 11, number 2, page 164