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CORK INSULATION<br />

vfany attem])ts lia\c l_)een made to transplant tliis interest-<br />

ing tree, Imt the result of e\ery sueh effort has been futile.<br />

Just before t'n.e Ci\il war, in 1859', the United States Government<br />

provided funds to brin;;- I'ortuijLse <strong>cork</strong> acorns to se\'-<br />

cral of the Southern States for planting; but after a dozen<br />

years c^r so it was c<strong>on</strong>cluded, in spite of the neglect of the<br />

seedlings occasi<strong>on</strong>ed by the War of tlie Rebelli<strong>on</strong>, that the<br />

experiment was not a commercial success. Some of these<br />

<strong>cork</strong> oak trees are still standing in Mississippi and Georgia,<br />

but the outer bark never matured satisfactorilw^ "^^<br />

FIC. 3— S()UK( E OK IHK WORLDS Sl'PPLY OF CORK.<br />

*In 1872 another eft'ort was made to grow the <strong>cork</strong> oak in<br />

southern California. Init the outcome pro\ed no better there<br />

than it did at an earlier date in the luist.*Four of these trees<br />

are now standing in the Methodist churchyard at Fourth and<br />

Ariz<strong>on</strong>a Streets. Santa M<strong>on</strong>ica. California, and a half dozen<br />

more have recently been located by H. H. Wetzel in Santa<br />

M<strong>on</strong>ica cany<strong>on</strong>; ])ut while the trees themselves have flour-<br />

ished, the quality of their salient ])roduct is inferior and of no<br />

commercial value. ^

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