. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. DEARBORN labors, see "History of the Mass. Horticultural Society," 1880, wUicli contains a portrait; also John B. Russel in Tilton's Journ. Hort. 7:88, 157, 270. Gen. H. A. S. Dearborn was son of Gen. Henry Dearborn, of Revolu- tion and later fame. L H B 'DtCODOS (Greek, ten-toothed). Lijthrhcem. A ha
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. DEARBORN labors, see "History of the Mass. Horticultural Society," 1880, wUicli contains a portrait; also John B. Russel in Tilton's Journ. Hort. 7:88, 157, 270. Gen. H. A. S. Dearborn was son of Gen. Henry Dearborn, of Revolu- tion and later fame. L H B 'DtCODOS (Greek, ten-toothed). Lijthrhcem. A hardy perennial herb rarely cultivated by dealers in native plants. It has opposite or whorled lvs.,the upper with axiUary, short-stalked clusters of fls. Abroad Deeodon is usually considered a subgenus of Nesaea. It is dis- tinguished from Lythrum by having 5 (rarely 4) petals instead of 6, and 8-10 stamens, while Lythrum has mostly 6 or 12. (Xesma verticiUAtayBBK.). Swamp Loose-Stripe. Smooth or downy: stems recurved, 2-S ft. long, 4~6-sided: Ivs. lanceolate, nearly sessile: pet- als 5, cuneate-lanceolate, rose-purple, J^in. long; stamens 10, half of them shorter. Swampy grounds, N. E. to Pla., west to Minn, and La.—Int. bvH. P. Kelsey. DECTJMAKIA (Latin, deciimus, tenth, referring to the number of the parts of the fl.). Saxifrag&cew. Shrubs climbing by aerial rootlets : Ivs. deciduous, opposite, petioled : fls. in terminal peduncled corymbs, small, white, perfect; sepals and petals 7-10 ; stamens 20-30: fr. a 5-10-celled ribbed capsule opening between the ribs, with numerous minute seeds. Two species in E. N. Amer. and China, of which only the American species is in cultivation. Ornamental climbing shrub, with handsome glossy foliage and fragrant white fls., forming a corymb of feathery appearance, well adapted for cover- ing walls, rocks, trellis work and trunks of trees, but not hardy north. Thrives in almost any humid soil. Prop, by greenwood cutting
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