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DAVALLIA 



DEAKBORN 



tion in a temperature of 65-70° and kept moderately 

 moist, a number of small plants will develop from the 

 dormant eyes, which may be separately potted as soon 

 as of sufficient size. Spores of Davallia should be sown 

 on a fine compost of soil, leaf -mold or peat and sand in 

 equal parts, and placed in a shaded position in a tem- 

 perature of 60-65° F. All the operations of propagation 

 of Davallias will be most successful if carried on during 

 the spring months. All Davallias delight in a rich and 

 open compost, an abundance of light and air, and moisture 

 at their roots, a temperature of 60-65° F. and a thorough 

 syringing every bright day. n. N. Beucknee. 



A. Ijvs. once pinnate, iviih few linear segments. 

 pentaphylla, Blume. Lvs. scattered from a stout 

 flbrillose rootstock, with 1 terminal and 4-6 lateral 

 pinnae, 4-6 in. long, 3^in. broad; sori in marginal rows. 

 Java and Polynesia. 



AA. Zvs. tri-quadn-pinnatifid, deltoid. 

 B. Length of lvs. usxially less than 1 ft. 



buU&ta, Wall. Fig. 683. Lvs. scattered from a creep- 

 ing rootstock, which is clothed with light brown flbrillose 

 scales, often whitish when young ; 8-10 in. long, 

 4-6 in. wide, quadri-pinnatifld, with deeply incised seg- 

 ments; texture firm. India to Java and Japan. F.E. 

 11:543. 



683. Davallia bullata. 



MS,riesii, Moore. Kootstock stout, with brownish 

 scales, which are lanceolate from a broad dilated base: 

 lvs. deltoid, 4-6 in. each way, with the piimae cut away at 

 the lower side at base ; segments short-linear, 1-nerved ; 

 sori intramarginal. Japan. G.C.III. 13: 571. 



BB. Length of lvs. 1-Z ft. 

 0. Foliage commonly tri-pinnatifid. 

 ilegans, Swz. Eootstock clothed with woolly fibers: 

 lvs. 9-15 in. wide, with the main raohis slightly winged 



toward the apex ; indusia s'everal to a segment, with the 

 sharp teeth projecting beyond the cups. Ceylon to Aus- 

 tralia and Polynesia. 



s61ida, Swz. {D. ornMa, Wall.). Rootstock clothed 

 with appressed scales or fibers : lvs. 1-2 ft. long, 12-15 

 in. wide, the center of the apex broad and undivided ; 

 segments broad and slightly cut ; indusia marginal. 

 Malaya. 



00. Foliage commonly quadri-pinnatifid. 



pyxid^ta, Cav. Rootstock clothed with pale brown 

 linear scales : lvs. tri-quadri-pinnatifid, 6-9 in. broad, 

 with oblong segments ; sori with a broad space outside, 

 which is extended into a horn-like projection. Australia. 



Fijitosis, Hook. Lvs. 6-12 in. broad, with the lower 

 pinnae deltoid and the segments cut into narrow, linear 

 divisions }^-J<in. long ; sori on the dilated apices of 

 the segments, with no horn. Fiji Islands. A. F. 6:900; 

 9 : 233. G.C. III. 23 : 323. -One of the finest species, with 

 numerous varieties. 



dlss6cta, J. Sra. Rootstock stout, with dense, rusty 

 scales : lvs. 10-12 in. broad, on straw-colored stalks ; 

 segments oblong, cuneate at base, with simple or bifid 

 lobes ; sori minute, often with two projecting horns. 

 Java. 



BBB. Length of lvs. SS ft. 



divaiic&ta, Blume {D. polydntha, Hook.). Rootstock 

 with linear rusty scales : lvs. tri-pinnatifid, sometimes 

 2 ft. broad, with deltoid segments cut into linear oblong 

 lobes ; sori at some distance from the edge. India to 

 Java and Hong Kong. 



pallida, Mett. {B. Moore&na, Masters). Rootstock 

 stout, with lanceolate dark brown scales : lvs. with straw- 

 colored stalks 12-18 in. long, quadri-pinnatifid, with del- 

 toid, stalked segments, the ultimate obovate-cuneate, 

 bearing the sorus on the upper side at the base. Anei- 

 teum and Borneo. A.P. 6: 901; 9: 231. A.G. 13: 143. 



L. M. Underwood. 



DAY FLOWER. See Commelina. 



DAY LILY, FunJcia and Hemerocallis. 

 DEAD 'NETTLE. Lamium. 



DEANE, BEV. SAIffUEL, poet and agricultural writer, 

 was bom at Dedham, Mass., July 30, 1733, and died at 

 Falmouth (now Portland), Maine, Nov. 12, 1814, where 

 he had been pastor since Oct. 17, 1764. While vice-presi- 

 dent of Bowdoin College, he published, in 1790, his "New 

 England Farmer, or GeorgicalDictionary,"thefiLrst Ameri- 

 can encyclopedic work on agriculture. This had a much 

 wider circulation, probably, than Jared Eliot's "Essays 

 upon Field-Husbandry," 1747. Its infiuence may be traced 

 to the middle of the present century. Deane's work was 

 freely quoted by P. G. Fessenden until his death, in 1837. 

 The second edition, 1797, was entitled The Georgical 

 Dictionary. A third edition was published in 1822. 



Deane and Eliot were the chief writers in that early 

 stage of American horticulture when it was hardly im- 

 portant enough to be considered distinct from general 

 agriculture. For biographical details, see Drake's Dic- 

 tionary of American Biography. 



DEARBORN, HENRY ALEXANDER SCAMMELL, 



soldier, statesman and author (1783-1851), was also an 

 ardent horticulturist. He was a moving spirit in the or- 

 ganization of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 and was elected its first president on the 17th of March, 

 1829. He was partly instrumental in the establishment 

 of an "experimental garden and cemetery at Mount 

 Auburn," the parent of rural cemeteries. The plan of 

 the cemetery was largely his ( cf . Bigelow ) . He " devoted 

 himself to this work most assiduously," writes the 

 chronicler of the -society, "spending the greater part of 

 the autumn [1831] at Mount Auburn, in laboring with 

 hands as well as mind, without money and without price." 

 The Abbe Berlese's Monography of the Camellia was 

 translated by him, and published in Boston in 1838. He 

 also translated from the French, in 1830, an account of 

 the since famous Morns miilticauHs. He left MS. 

 writings on horticulture. For notes on his horticultural 



