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DIGGING 



D. maje'stica (majestic). Leaves with bright yellow 



blotches. 1882. 

 marmora'ta (marbled). Leaves spotted creamy-white. 



Colombia. 1877. 



tne'dio-pi'cta (middle-painted). Brazil. 1869. 

 Melea'gris (Guinea-hen). Leaves with a few white 



spots. Ecuador. 1892. 

 Memo'ria-Co'rtii. (In memory of Cort.) 

 mira'bilis (wonderful). Brazil. 1868. 

 ni'tida (shining). Blotched bright yellow-green. 



Colombia. 1881. 

 no'bilis (noble). Leaves with yellow-green patches. 



Brazil. 1869. 

 O'lbia (Olbia). Rib feathered white and spotted 



yellow-green. Peru. 1892. 



Parlato'rei (Parlatore's). Spathe green. Colombia. 

 marmo'rea (marbled). Leaves with greenish-white 



blotch. Colombia. 1877. 

 Pea'rcei (Pearcei). Leaves spotted creamy-white. 



Ecuador. 

 pi'cta (painted). Leaves spotted with white. Brazil. 



1820. 

 pictura'ta (painted). Leaves spotted with white. 



Venezuela. 1892. 

 pri'nceps (chief). Leaves with few yellow spots and 



grey rib. Brazil. 1868. 

 Regi'na (queen). Leaves greenish-white, blotched 



dark green. S. Amer. 1883. 

 Re'x (king). Leaves blotched with white. S. Amer. 



1883. 



robu'sta (robust). Trop. Amer. 1854. 

 Segui'ne (Seguine). Spathe white. Trop. Amer. 



" Dumb-cane." 



macula'ta (blotched). Leaves blotched. 

 variega'ta (variegated). Leaves variegated. 

 ,, Shuttlewo'rthii (Shuttleworth's). See D. PICTA. 

 ,, specio'sa (showy). Leaves striped silvery grey, purple 



beneath. 1882. 



specta'bilis (showy). Brazil. 1864. 

 ,, sple'ndens (splendid). Leaves with white streaked 



blotches. Colombia. 1880. 

 ,, triu'mphans (triumphant). Thickly blotched with 



yellow-green. Colombia. 1881. 

 ,, veluti'na (velvety). Leaves bright green. Colombia. 



1877. 



Verschaffe'ltii (Verschaffelt). See D. BARAQUINIANA. 

 vitta'ta (striped). Leaves with two feathery bands 



of white. Colombia. 1876. 

 Walli'sii (Wallis). Leaves with feathered whitish 



central band. Colombia. 1870. 

 Wei'rii (Weir's). Marbled with yellow. Brazil. 1866. 



DIELY'TRA. See DICENTRA. 



DIERA'MA. (From dicrama, a funnel ; in allusion to 

 the funnel-shaped flowers. Nat. ord. Iridaceas.) 



Beautiful bulbous plants allied to Sparaxis, and may 

 be grown in light soil in front of a south wall, or kept in 

 cold frames for the winter. Seeds, and offsets. Light, 

 sandy soil. 



D. pe'ndula (pendulous-flowered). 2 to 4. White to 



mauve purple. S. Africa. 1825. 

 ,, pulche'rrima (fairest). 5 to 6. Blood-purple. S. 



Africa. B. M., t. 5555. 

 a'lba (white). 



DIERVTLLA. (Named after M. Dierville, a French 

 surgeon. Nat. ord. Caprifoils [Caprifoliaceae]. Linn. 

 5-Pentandria, i-Monogynia. Allied to Leycesteria.) 



Creeping-rooted, hardy shrubs. Suckers from the 

 roots ; cuttings in the open ground, in autumn ; common, 

 moist, shaded garden-soil. 



D. ama'bilis (lovely). See D. GRANDIFLORA. 

 canade'nsis (Canadian). See D. LONICERA. 

 ,, floribu'nda (free-flowering). 3 to 4. Red-purple. 



June. Japan. 1863. 

 ,, ,, ver si' color (changing-coloured). 

 flo'rida (flowery). 3 to 5. Rose. China. 1844. 

 ca'ndida (white). White. 1879. 

 monstro'sa (monstrous). Leaves crisped, often 



clustered. 



,, variega'ia (variegated). Leaves variegated. 

 grandiflo'ra (large-flowered). 3 to 6. Rose. June. 



Japan. 



D. grandifto'ravariega'ta( variegated). Leaves variegated 



pale yellow. 



,, horte'nsis (garden). See D. JAPONICA HORTENSIS. 

 ,, hy'brida (hybrid). A collective name for the garden 



hybrids. 

 japo'nica (Japanese). 3 to 6. Rose. May. Japan. 



1884. 



,, horte'nsis (garden). 5. Pink. Japan. 

 ,, ,, Looyma'nsii au'rea (golden). Leaves light yellow. 

 ,, Lonice'ra (honeysuckle-like). 3. Yellow. June. N. 



Amer. 1739. 



lu'tea (yellow- flowered). See D. LONICERA. 

 middendorfia'na (Middendorfian). Yellow- white. 



Siberia. 1854. 



multiflo'ra (many-flowered). See D. FLORIBUNDA. 

 prce'cox (early). Rose. May. Japan. 1897. 

 ,, rivula'ris (brook). 3. Yellow, tinted pink. Eastern 



United States. 1901. 

 ,, ro'sea (rosy). See D. FLORIDA. 

 ,, sessilifo'lia (sessile- leaved). 3 to 4. Yellow. E. 



United States. 1888. 

 ,, tri'fida (three-cut). See D. LONICERA. 

 ,, versi'color (changing-coloured). See D. FLORIBUNDA 



VERSICOLOR. 



DIETE RIA. See ASTER. 



DEE'TES COMPRE'SSA. See MOR^A IRIDIOIDES. 



DIE TES HUTTO'NI. See MOR/EA SPATHACEA. 



DIGGING with the spade or fork has for its object a 

 loosening of the soil so as to render it more fit for the 

 reception of seeds or plants. Begin at one end of the 

 piece of ground, and with your spade open a trench 

 quite across, one good spade wide and one deep, carrying 

 the earth to the end where you finish ; then, keeping 

 your face to the opening, proceed to dig one spade deep 

 regularly from one side of the piece to the other, turning 

 the spits neatly into the trench, and the next course 

 against these ; and so keep digging straight back, spit 

 and spit, still preserving an open trench, a good spade 

 width and depth, between the dug and undug ground, 

 that you may have full room to give every spit a clean 

 turn, taking all the spits perpendicularly, and not taking 

 too much before the spade, especially in stiff land, or 

 where the surface is full of weeds, or is much dunged ; 

 so giving every spit a clean turn, the top to the bottom 

 and the bottom to the top, that the weeds or dung on 

 the surface may be buried a due depth, and that the 

 fresh earth may be turned up. As you proceed, break all 

 large clods, and preserve an even surface carrying both 

 sides and middle on equally, unless one side shall be 

 hollow ; then carry on the hollow side first in a gradual 

 sweep, inclining the spits of earth rather that way, which 

 will raise that side and reduce the high one, observing 

 the same if both sides are high and the middle hollow, or 

 both sides hollow and the middle high, always keeping 

 the lower ground advancing gradually before the higher, 

 by which you will always maintain a uniform level. 



The same should also be observed in beginning to dig 

 any piece of ground, that if one corner is much lower 

 than another, carry on the lower part somewhat first, 

 in a slanting direction, as far as necessary. Likewise, 

 in finishing any pieces of digging, gradually round upon 

 the lower side, so as to finish at the highest corner ; and 

 having dug to where you intend to finish, then use the 

 earth taken out of the first trench to make the last open- 

 ing equal with the other ground. In plain digging 

 dunged ground, if the dung is quite rotten you may dig 

 clean through, giving each spit a clean turn to bury the 

 dung in the bottom of the trench ; but if you cannot 

 readily do this, trim the dung a spade's width at a time 

 into the furrow or open trench, and so dig the ground 

 upon it, which is rather the most effectual method, 

 whether rotten or long fresh dung. 



All weeds that are perennial should be carefully picked 

 out, particularly couch-grass and bear-bind. But annual 

 weeds, groundsel, and the like, should be turned down to 

 the bottom of the trench, where they will rot. 



A man will dig, by plain digging of light, free-working, 

 clean ground, eight, ten, or twelve rods a day, from six 

 to six, though in some of the light, clean ground about 

 London, a man will turn up fifteen or twenty rods a 

 day, from five to seven ; but in stiff, stubborn soils, a 



