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THE raw material of vegetable origin produced in the British Empire for consumption as food or use in industry is of infinite variety and immense value. Rubber in Malaya, tea in India and Ceylon, cocoa in the Gold Coast, jute, cotton, rice, and oil-seeds in India, wheat and fruit in Canada and Australia, all represent interests of primary importance. It is natural, therefore, to find close attention paid to safeguarding the health of the plant world throughout the Dominions and Colonies, and in recent times there has grown up a system of barriers directed against the free circulation of living plants that might serve to introduce plant pests and diseases.
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Plant Quarantines. Nature 114, 337–338 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114337a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/114337a0