C. Mathieu, Culture du caoutchouc de Para (1909)
“ Another advantage in having a fixed proportion of the trunk tapped is that the same lines of tapping can be followed as long as the tree lives. The tree may grow in girth, but the relative positions of the lines remain the same. The object of tapping one third only of the surface, instead of one half as is done in the half-spiral system, is twofold : 1. To leave as much of the bark whole in order not to check the flow of the sap ”
