BUTTONS ON TREES
More than 500 million buttons are made in the United States every year from nuts that grow wild on palm trees in the jungles of South America. About 100 nuts grow in a single bunch. The nut “meat’! is sawn into thin slices which are sent to the factories for manufacture into buttons. Somebody has recently estimated that 10,000 million buttons are turned out by 300 United States factories in a normal yeaf\ Before clothes rationing began in Britain it was said that at least 3000 million buttons were used every year. People have been using buttons in Britain since the tenth century, when they were more ornamental than useful. They were often made of gold or silver and were imported from abroad. Included among the many materials from which buttons have been made are plated copper, white metal, steel, pinch-beck, japanned tin, glass, mother-of-pearl, iyory, bone, tortoiseshell, jet, paper, milk, and wood.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 39, 10 January 1949, Page 7
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156BUTTONS ON TREES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 39, 10 January 1949, Page 7
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