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HORTICULTURE 



August 18, 1906 



A NEW FIBRE PLANT. 



Consul F. W. Goding, of Newcastle, 

 reports successful experiments with 

 fiber plants, hitherto neglected in 

 Australia. He writes: 



Queensland is particularly rich in 

 these, one called by the aboriginals 

 "boorgay" being so tenacious that if 

 the leaf is simply twisted into a rope 

 it will bear the strain of several 

 hundredweight. It is now found that 

 there is growing around Brisbane a 

 fiber plant called by botanists "murva" 

 that will yield fiber of great value. 

 Major Boyd, of the agricultural de- 

 partment, retted some "murva" leaves 

 and sent a sample of the fiber to a rope 

 making firm in Germany for test, and 

 these manufacturers are now prepared 

 to purchase it at $175 to |200 per ton. 

 This plant, with its tall, mottled 

 leaves, now growing wild or in the 

 gardens of Bisbane as an ornamental 

 pot plant, can very easily be culti- 

 vated. It can be propagated by cut- 

 ting of the leaves and grows quickly. 

 It can be mown down like 

 lucerne, springing up again vigorously, 

 ready for the next crop. The average 

 yield is at least 5 tons per acre, and 

 if the cost of planting, mowing, ret- 

 ting, and machining reached 50 per 

 cent of the market value of the riber 

 obtained, nearly $500 per acre might be 

 netted. To start such a new industry 

 may require considerable courage, but 

 the risk of loss would be trilling and 

 the profits worth while. 



Arthur T. Boddington has been ap- 

 pointed the sole agent in the United 

 States and Canada for the Edwards 

 Cj'aniding Machine, manufactured in 

 England. This simple contrivance 

 makes the use of cyanic acid gas pos- 

 sible, without the usual dangers which 

 prevent its general use. Mr. Bodding- 

 ton will place this machine on the 

 market immediately. 



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 LiliumLongiflorum 



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