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Thursday, October 16, 1930 Another Interesting Paper on Horticulture from W. C. Egan‘s Papers AUTUMN FLOWERS _â€"â€" IN WILD GARDEN Here is another excerpt from the writings of the late W. C. Egan of Highland Park: . The general term Aster is used as acommon name to plants of seven distinct genera, having no affinity with the true Aster. The China Asâ€" ter of our gardens is Callistephus chinensis. â€" Starwort is the most comâ€" mon name of our wild Asters. There ere about thirtyâ€"one species of the true Aster in Lake and Cook countâ€" ies, Illinois, including A. Tradescanti, the Michaelmas Daisy of England. These.wild Asters are so abundant and play such an important part in the coloring of our landscape views that they speak for themselves, and many of them are so improved in their form and color that they are worthy of being brought into the borâ€" ders. Two Species There are only two species of Bolâ€" tonia known to the trade, one, the False Chamomile or Foamâ€"flower (B. asterodes) a native of Illinois south of Chicago in moist situations; the other, the Pink Boltonia (B. latisquâ€" ama) from Kansas and Missouri. I prefer B. latisquama, but it does not seem as hardy as the other. There is a variety of this one growing only about two feet tall. They are both fine subjects for bold masses at the rear of the border. Boltonia asteraides is an admirable tall plant to be used in the wilder parts in connection with . its still handsomer Missouri sister. The first named bears numerous white, and the latter, pink asterâ€"like _ flowers, borne in profusion‘ throughout Sepâ€" tember. The Eupatoriums are represented in our native flora by four species, including E. purpureum, the Joeâ€"pyeâ€" weed, named after an Indian mediâ€" cine man of old New England, famed for his skill in curing typhoid fever. His cureâ€"all was a tea made from: the leaves and stalks of E. purpureâ€" um. Other species were used in the medicinal arts in the early days. The one species worthy of cultivation is E. urticifolium, commonly known as E. ageratoides, the White Snakeâ€" root, whose white flowers in the auâ€" tumn remind one of a giant white Ageratum. In August and Septemâ€" ber it is a welcome guest when the yellows run riot. While it prefers a damp situation it seems to do well in anyâ€" situation and grows about four feet tall. It is a good companion in the border for the Mistâ€"flower (Conoâ€" clinium coelestinum) which is often classed as an Eupatorium. This grows about two feet tall, appearing like gigantic plants of the blue Agerâ€" atum. It may be used with the White Snakeâ€"root as it blooms before the former is through. This plant is not over hardy ‘and might not live through some winters although it is native to Michigan and Illinois. I take up my plants and cold frame them. Sneezeweed Sneezeweed (Helenium autumnale) is a native in damp soils all around us, and its forms, rubrum and Riverâ€" ton Beauty are worthy of extensive use either in the border or in the damper parts of the wild planting. A. pumilum magnificum does not last long with me. * & Heiiopsis scabra, the roughâ€"leaved False Sunflower, is one of the most numerous natives we have, andl makes a splendid nutural border line | at the junction of .the lawn lnd| weeds. Before its bloom its ‘reeul foliage is good and its color pleasing (to those who like yellow) when in blsom. There is a semiâ€"double sort from it called var. zinniaeflora, worâ€" thy of a place in the border. The only herbaceous member of the extensive genus Artemisia is Arâ€" temisia lactifiora, a recent introducâ€" tion from China, possessing a dark green, finely laciniated foliage. It is a tall growing species, bearing in August and September large Hawâ€" thorn scented panicles of creamy white flowers. 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