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rugged, corky bark, resembling richly-chased frosted silver, 
which is finely contrasted with the dark-green luxuriant 
foliage.” In the same grounds there stands another tree of 
the same species, which does not fall far short of the dimensions 
stated. In Fulham nursery, near London, close by the King’s 
Road, between Parson’s Green and Fulham, stands a handsome 
cork tree, thirty-five feet high, with a trunk nine feet in girth 
at one foot above the ground, and overspread with cork to 
the depth of a few inches. 
