. 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. cots), cut in two, show- ing ovules. Nat. size, n drupes of the genus parts of a raspberry is a drupelet. DEt-AS (Greek, wood- nymph). JtCosdcea. A genus of 2 or 3 species of dwarf, hardy, tufted, evergreen, somewhat shrubby plants with oblong lvs. half an inch long, recurved at the margins, shining above, snow
. 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. cots), cut in two, show- ing ovules. Nat. size, n drupes of the genus parts of a raspberry is a drupelet. DEt-AS (Greek, wood- nymph). JtCosdcea. A genus of 2 or 3 species of dwarf, hardy, tufted, evergreen, somewhat shrubby plants with oblong lvs. half an inch long, recurved at the margins, shining above, snowy white beneath, and large white or yellow fls. borne singly on slender scapes: calj'x glandular-hairy: petals 8-9, broadly obovate: stamens many. The genus is close to Cieum.'but the species of Geum are herbs with deeply cut foliage. J. W. Manning recommends a soil well furnished with peat. Dryas octopetata requires a well drained, porous soil, a sunny but not dry position. It is well to shade the foli- age from bright sun during the winter months with evergreen branches to prevent the foliage from having a scorched appearance. A capital plant for the rockery. Prop, by cuttings, division, or by seed. octop6tala, Linn. Lvs. oblong, deeply and regularly crenate, downy beneath: scapes 2-3 in. long: fls. white: seeds with a feathered awn over 1 in. long. North tem- perate and arctic regions. j. B. Keller. DKYMOGLOSSUM. a genus of small ferns from Japan, with wide creeping rootstalks, and small, entire leaves : sori resembling those of Polypodiimi. None are advertised in America. Three or four kinds are cult, abroad. L. M. ords trib, vith cige- genus contains a Tri']ii'-: shaped leaflets and >• every year. It flowrr>-vt hiKh. and is suitable for pot culture, (ipim-hss palm, with slender. medium caudex: lvs. terminal, equally pinnatiseot, the segments cuneate-oblong or linear, broadly oblique, sub- membranaceous, 3- to many-nerved, the margins re- curved at the b
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