Ignite the night: here's an incandescent addition to the perennial border

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Gardeners should consider using the gas plant (Dictamnus albus) for its spectacular appearance and virtues as a hardy perennial. If left long enough in the proper location, it ultimately produces two-foot spikes of brilliant color whose seed pods or flowers emit a flammable gas. Known to physicians and herbalists for millennia, it is native across Eurasia and has had various other names. Despite occasional listings of up to eight species, it is usually considered a single species.

Appreciation, Medicinal plants, Oil flower plants

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Preserving the "Sunshine of the Night"

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Don Colston, the president of the International Coleman Collectors Club, Inc. (ICCC), has plenty of light to share, with a collection of 100 lanterns and about 20 lamps. The Coleman lanterns extended the time farmers and ranchers could work, significantly increasing productivity and changing lives in rural America, and hence the government declared it as an essential item during World War I.

United States, Collections and collecting, Lanterns, Colston, Don

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Maharaja for a night

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Visitors to India can avail of royal accommodations at palaces and forts which have been converted to hotels. This trend was started in 1957, when the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur opened the Rambagh Palace to commercial guests. Other palace-hotels include Lake Palace Hotel, Umaid Bhawan Palace and Neemrana Fort-Palace.

India, Hotels and motels, Palaces, Rajasthan, India

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