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Show '; u fill Growth of Cork Tress. a'li Upwards of CO per cent of the XI' world's cork is produced In Spain and !I; Portugal., The llneM Is grown In WUi various purls of tin provinces of So- iflj Wile, Mariiijo. Cadiz, Huelva, Bar- in. celonii and Kuluiunuen. The nge of jM maturity varies In different parts of Hi the same tree. Frnri eight to nine flj years Is required li.v ilio trunk, from jflL ten to eleven years for the first 'H branches and from eleven to twelve fBH years for tint second branches. |