RUBBER-GROWING.
RUSSIAN SEED FOR NEW ZEALAND LONDON, October 5. Britain is experimenting in rubber growing at 20 places between Scotland and the sonth of England, using the Russian Kemksagyz dandelion, which is grown chiefly in the Ukraine and in the Moscow area. The plant is a native of the Tien Shan, mountains, where it grows at a height of 6000 feet.
Seed has been sent to New Zealand, Australia, and India, where trials are also being hold.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 305, 7 October 1942, Page 3
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