THE TREE HE GREW FROM GUM

He chewed gum. Always in a rabid manner in rhythm with his bike. From the age of 23, he took to burying the gum in the cracks where the lime lived. Geo-botanists said it’d never work. But with spit, sweat and hope he persevered. Within his lifetime, the British banyan was born and with it came a manufacturing boom that led to rubber, rope, paper, varnish, tent poles, toothbrushes, waterproof ink and hair lacquer.

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