Ficus elastica leaves the latex of the plant oozing, is coated with cuttings hormones and tightly wrapped with moist foam. The whole is covered with a plastic film and left a few months at the end of which new roots have developed from the axillary buds. The stem is then weaned and the new plant can be repotted. All parts of the plant contain an abundant milky white latex, which has been tested for use in the manufacture of rubber, but without economic and technical results; the rubber is actually produced from the sap of the rubber tree . In cultivation, it
Stranger, Bear Word to the Spartans We... indeed in his old school: his own handwriting in chalk on the blackboard: "Stranger, bear word to the Spartans we..." The story was first published by Verlag Friedrich Middelhauve in 1950 as the title story in a short story collection. Today, "Stranger, Bear Word to the Spartans We..." is one of Böll's most famous stories and is one of the best known of examples of Trümmerliteratur ("Rubble literature"). The unnamed first-person narrator begins the story in a truck and is transported through a partially burning city that he cannot identify, and is also unable to accurately gauge the amount of