Evelyn, in his sylva, makes several pleasing and fanciful allusions to this superstition.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Mr. John Kingswell, father of the said Mrs. Ann Maijor, died 5th March 1639. The lime-trees, beautifully surrounding the churchyard, are said to have been planted by Richard Cromwell, and there was certainly an excellent fashion of planting them in the latter end of the seventeenth century, partly due to a French custom, partly to Evelyn's sylva.
"John Keble's Parishes"
Charlotte M Yonge
But the pine is more especially the tree of a northern sylva.
"Popular Adventure Tales"
Mayne Reid