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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1638, 3 January 1913, Page 8

Brazil, according to. a lecturer at the International Rubber Conference in New York City, was tho original rubber-pro-ducing country of the world, but was slow, to'appreciate the valuo of her vast rubber forests. Seeds from her rubber trees have been used to grow trees in many other countries, but .now it is forbidden to export those seeds. Culivated rubber sells to-day for twenty-two ccnts a pound moro han wild rublier, and Brazil" herself is beginning to cultivate the rubber tree. A curious'desert plant is described by Captain Haywood, of the .British Army, in his-recontly 'published book, "Across the Great Sahara." This is called by tho Arabs "acheb," and its peculiar characteristic is that it springs ,tip only in a year when rain falls, in the desert. The seed seems never to die. It merely rests in tho ground: waiting for the requisite fall of rnin. Tho locality mny hnve'nb rain for ten years, yet the seed germinates when rain does eventually come. "Acheb" is very nourishing, and is eagerly devoured by camels. Why not import some of it for our drv regions? For Children's Hacking Cough at Night, Woods' Great PoMoimint Cure, U. 6u,*