Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1893 — The Decorative Rubber Plant. [ARTICLE]

The Decorative Rubber Plant.

The rubber plant that has become so common a piece of domestic decoration, is not the plant that yields the robber of commerce. That is derived principally from two varieties of rubber tree that frow in Brazil and attain a large siae. 'be rubber plant of our American parlors and greenhouses, with its long, glossy leaves, would not pay for tapping. It is a species of fig, and India is it* habitat. A gum can be obtained from nearly every plant that excudes a milky sap, even from the common milkweed, and the number of rubber yielding plants is estimated at about 500.—[New York