The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1864-06-04
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grows under water like the sponge, aud VIC
have even heard the belief expressed, that
rorks grew on trees like plums aud pears. -
Ii is an article indispensable to every house
holds used in cellar and kitchen, and
found in every sick room: druggists, chem
lists, and liquor dealers consume great guam
titles: il is used by nearly all mechanics,
forms part of the various articles of cloth
ing. such as hats aud shoes Tor winter: lastly
Iishcrsarn use il for their $cinrs. and it pre-
serves our lives when IN DANCE Oh the water.
Does not such an useful, So versatile an ar
ticlp which has no substitute nor ever VIII
have deserve to be known better?
The cork tree. or cork oak, gNercus Suber.
belongs in botany to the same class as the
rest Of the oaks, bears acoms, and only diff
tcrs from them by giving less shade and
looking less fresh, owing to its bark being
crippled 50 often. This bark is the cork
wood. and out of it the corks are cut. 1t
was known and much made use Of by the
old Greeks and Romans.
In modern literature, even in Biographies
and travelling guides describing all the pecu-
liaritirS Of u country. the cork tree is never
mentioned. On the steamer going over to
Europe, made the acquaintance OF Il Span
lard. from Madrid, who did not know that
the cork crew in Spain, and in the ralr0ad
cars from CadiH to Seville. c0nvcrSrd freely
with Il gentleman from Cordoba, who had
Travelled aud seen aud know great many
things. lGtt never heard Of such thing a.
cork forming Il branch Of trade and growing
and being manufactured in Spain.
This wonderful tree only grows in Europe,
in Spain. PORTUGAL and sicily, and to some
extent in parts Of southern France, and al
50 in Africa. near Bone, AIgcr5. All eli
forts to transplant ii to our country 10 parts
of the same geographical and terrestrial con
dtiun, have proved futile. 1t has an ac-
communicating way of growing best and pro-
,lucne the finest cork IN the most sterile
ground. So it is seen in the Pyrcnnees OH
the top Of mountains between nothing hui
rocks and stones. The acorn is planted,
and after the sapling has grown into a tree
of about five inches diameter, say after ten
wears more or less, it is for the first time
It igpe of its bark. but net more than twu
feet from the ground. The stuff obtained is
good for nothing and is called ''the savage.
After another eight or ten years It l% stripped
AMIN and this time double the former length
from the root. and SO successfully Until forty
wears of age, when it is stripped from the
root to where the branches begin to expand
where the bark is always OF the finest quail
ity hereafter The second growth Is little
better than the first, it is used for scincs and
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greatest di,idcnd-paying property on earth,
a. it wants no looking after, no nursing, on
~ to be clipped every ten years. The cork
i stripped to what is called " lacamiSa,
the shirt of the tree, Il tender sort of u seq
ond bark, which is blood red, and if slit
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