One of Britain's most excited citizens last week was amateur botanist and practical farmer Richard Mansion Mortimer, 65, a Scotsman who has a place at Great Wigborough, Essex. Around three-year-old bomb craters in his fields strange plants had sprouted to a height of seven feet.* Canny Richard Mortimer examined the flora, reported: "The plant can be grown as easily as a common weed, and raw rubber will drip from it when it is cut. Samples of the plant were sent to a chemist. The report came back: 'pure latex.' Each plant yields...
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