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The Skokie Valley CY 07 ugeg Rgeee 0@ CHARLES FIORE Landscape Gardening and assure successful growth next spring! Fv\l.l, is the ideal time to plant nearly all varieties of trees and shrubs. _ Then plants are dormant, the soil workable and the ample fall rains pack the earth firmly about the roots so they ars ready to respond to the first growing urge of spring. To delay planting until next spring may mean the loss of a full seasonâ€"plant this fall! NOMICAL YET INCOMPARABLY BETTER *'0‘ the‘s 49 Prairie Avenue Telephone Highwood 523 E) D will be glad to help you t exactly the vi;.u variâ€" to m’v‘vl ‘p‘;u'm: lect you e. Coll, or wrie r advice is free. Sold ne Highwood Specialists in H Wet Wash MUHLKE Repuired Flat Work Laundry hone 10 a ANOTHER EXCERPT FROM EGAN PAPERS Gasplant, Iris and Knotweed Are Discussed in This Arâ€" ticle; Is Interesting Every pretentious country estate should possess a well established gasâ€" plant, not the modern one, strung like » bead on a corporation line of pubâ€" hc utilities, but the old. fashioned ne that délighted our grandmothers in the days of long ago, one that thrives without a meter and gives out its gas free of cost. Such is Dictamnus albus (D. Fraxâ€" inella), bearing the common names of liittany, Burningâ€"bush, and Gasplant. The â€"moreâ€" recent <introduction,. the variety caucasicus, also known as D. grandiflora, is a stronger grower, producing larger flower spikes. Both are exotic species and to my mind should not be included in the wild planting, as their form and genâ€" eral appearance are not in keeping with the usual aspects of our native plants.â€" If so used one would imâ€" agine at once that they were intrudâ€" ers "escaped from. eultivation," as the botanists would say. Their place in the border, informal planting and for dwarf hedges. In cither situation the Gasplant is a th Following is another excerpt from « papers of the late W. C. Egan, titled â€""Gasplant, \Iris and Knotâ€" eir ‘place in the border, informal ing and for dwarf hedges. In r situation the Gasplant is a admirable herb, perfectly hardy, lived, possessing a foliage of T H Eo P RESS 9 laap "The books sayâ€"and they do not always tel: the truth, but I hope this article doesâ€"that it thrives as well in the shade as in the sun.> My exâ€" perience does not coincide with this statement. 1 have a hedge of it scme 50 feet long, which is partly shaded by a large spreading Hawâ€" thorn whose branches reach over it but are fully six to seven feet above the .ground. There is plenty of difâ€" fused light over the plants, but no direct sunâ€"light until late in the aftâ€" ernoon. The plants where shaded are fully eight to 10 inches lower in height and the. flower spikes shorter and the foliage is not! as luxuriant, as of those in full sun. I have seen the same result in other rich, â€" glossy green . that remains bright and fresh up to frost, and requiring no insect powder to keep it tidy. I have seen the same result in other places. The Gasplant makes an effective herbacecus hedge in open sunny sitâ€" uations. _ When in bloomâ€"June and Julyâ€"on well established plants, the flower spikes, which are held . well above the foliage, will reach a height of three feet. The spikes on D. cauâ€" casicus are some six inches wide at the base, tapering to a point a foot or more above. Had I anything to doâ€" with the paint â€"pot when this fower was given its color I would have made it‘a more pleasing pink. The white: form is fine. When in bloom the plant possesses the stateâ€" liness cand dignity of the Lupines and the Foxgloves. When the flowers fade the bloom stalks should be cut well back, back | said that if a lighted match be apâ€" plied to the flowers, a gas will igâ€" nite." I tried it for over 20 years and almost impoverished myself on ‘ wasted matches, and with no results. I came to the conclusion that the ‘ story was a myth. > Late one afterncon Mr. E. O. Orpet ‘sm,lled in to "Egandale" and apâ€" proaching my hedge, remarked, "This | ought to be a good time to try the l(;asplant." and placing a lighted l match to.the base of the flower stalk, I was astonished to see a flame rush |to the top with a perfectly audible |hiss. The â€"myth became a reality. \ The secret was out and I wondered why some one, who must. have known ‘it long ago, had not published the facts, since I, for cone, have lost many. opportunities of amusing the childrenâ€"and we are all children in some things â€" by showing them a flower that produces a flame that does not injure itself. a few inches below the main height o‘ foliage, and just above a leaf stalk, thus leaving no stub to die back and turn brown. You willâ€"then have a compact if wellâ€"grown, glossy green hedge about two feet tall and almost as even in contour as if sheared. A little sheep manure workâ€" ed into the soil every other spring is a great help to the plants. So far I have been doing all the "gassing." Let us give the plant a chance to show why it received its name. : s Again I must find fault with the books. All that I have read when speaking of this plant, state, "it is said that if a lighted match be apâ€" plied to the flowers, a gas will igâ€" nite." I tried it for over 20 years How came this curious phen Thursday, July 31, 1930 i#3 »menâ€"