1634, Charles Fitz-Geffry,The blessed birth-day celebrated in some pious meditations, on the angels anthem, page11:
And thus fromMaries Wombe [footnote: Isaiah 23:2] a Plant proceeded, Which neither setting, neitherplantage needed.
1637, Nathaneel Whiting,The pleasant historie of Albino and Bellama, page82:
The jealous matrone with suspitious eye, Did read their common ill in every face, Espyde the breach of their virginity, And fear'd aplantage with an infant race.
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[…], page14:
And notwithstanding that for the space of 12 miles round aboutRome, there are neither Cornes nor Wines, nor Village,Plantage, or Cultinage, save onely playne and pastoragious fields;[…]
1894 July, “The American Association: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting at Niagara Falls”, inThe National Nurseryman, volume 2, number 6, page74:
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 theplantage and increase the price, but has had exactly the opposite effect.
1967, A. S. Alov, “Soil selection. 1. Methods of the use of lower horizons to raise soil fertility”, inAgrochimica, volume11, number 2, page164:
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 theplantage results in additional yields, but these are not so high as after the more proper transfer (or mixing) horizons[…]
2008,Virdi v Chana[2008] 11 WLUK 718 Case Digest:
The adjudicator had correctly noted that V was still able to maintain the part of the land that she owned and deal with it as the owner in that she had the ability to alter the surface of the land, maintain her fence, andplantage providing they did not interfere with the parking.[1]
^For evidence that this refers to cultivation, see the corresponding quotation of the aforementioned adjudicator as laid out in the original judgment, which refers to the growing of plants:
Virdi v Chana[2008] EWHC 2901 (Ch)[1],2008, archived fromthe original on27 February 2022:
It seems to me relevant, too, that only a part of the Disputed Land belongs to Mrs Virdi. She is able to use that part by maintaining it, dealing with it as owner. So, for instance, she cangrow a plant or trellis close to the fence (so long as it does not prevent parking); she could place bicycles on this land; she could alter the surface, replace and repaint the fencing, and so on.
