Note 37 — Chapter I
Bernard Miall translation
It should perhaps be stated that the flax or linen plant (Fr. lin) so often mentioned in this book, produces not only the flax or linen fibre of commerce, but also linseed, with its valuable products, oil-cake and linseed-oil; the first used for fattening cattle, the second for paints, varnishes, oilskins, and “inlaid linoleums,” as well as the basis or “skrim” of ordinary oilcloth.—[Trans.]