cork-trees

The first four miles was over a beautiful grassy plain, with mulga wood, not very thick; it then became more sandy, and covered with gum, cork-trees, and other scrubs, which continued within a mile of where we camped, in a small, but beautiful grassed plain; no water.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

For the first three miles our course was through a very thick mulga scrub, with plenty of grass, and occasionally a little spinifex; it then changed to a slightly undulating country of a reddish soil, with gum and cork-trees, and numerous low sandy plains, much resembling the gum and spinifex plains to the west, where I was twice beaten back.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

  The cork-trees hoar that clothe the shaggy steep,

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 2007

That was a Spain of cork-trees, of groves by the green margins of mountain brooks, of habitable hills, where shepherds might feed their flocks and mad lovers and maids forlorn might wander and maunder; and here were fields of corn and apple orchards and vineyards reddening and yellowing up to the doors of those comfortable farmhouses, with nowhere the sign of a Christian cavalier or a turbaned infidel.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

In the environs, cotton is cultivated, and charcoal is made from the Araish forest of cork-trees.

Travels in Morocco 2003

The novel beauty of the Dabney gardens can scarcely be exaggerated; each step was a new incursion into the tropics, -- a palm, a magnolia, a camphor-tree, a dragon-tree, suggesting Humboldt and Orotava, a clump of bamboos or cork-trees, or the startling strangeness of the great grass-like banana, itself a jungle.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various

Some of the cork-trees were fine specimens, of great age.

Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

Then the whole party slowly disappeared in the distance, under the groves of cork-trees or up the mountain paths.

Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin

At the narrow passage between the mountains, there stood in ancient times a grove of cork-trees, called 'Pelagus,' the sea.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various

On horseback, he traversed a virgin forest, obliged to bend over his horse's neck to avoid the huge branches of holm-oaks and cork-trees, and laurels and heather that were thirty feet high.

Balzac Frederick Lawton