[13] In a cork-wood of Montenegro (municipal district of Quart, Province of Gerona) the property of D. Romulo Bosch, and near the place called La Mina, we measured in August, 1877, a tree that was 4.95 meters in circumference, breast high, and the trunk of the tree five meters high, calculating its age between one hundred and fifty and two hundred years old. Consul Schenck’s Report, 1890.
[14] Centimeter = .3937 inch.
[15] Consul Schenck’s Report, 1890. Authority M. Fee.
[16] Scientific American, 1906.
[17] Armstrong Cork Co.’s pamphlet.
[18] Kilogram = 2.205 pounds.
[19] Mr. Lamey, the author of a study upon cork in Algeria, published some interesting tables in this work regarding the annual increase and the mean thickness of cork. According to him cork-bark should not be removed before it has attained a thickness of 2.032 cm., and the formation of new cork has been well explained by Mr. Mathieu in his “Forestry Flora.”
[20] Armstrong Cork Co.’s pamphlet.
[21] See “[Etymology of Word]” in preceding chapter.
[22] “New English Dictionary,” Murray.