. 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. DESCHAMPSIA DEUTZIA 473 flexudsa, Trin. (Alra flexudsa, Linn.)- Wood Haik- Gbass. a slender, perennial grass, 1-2 ft. high, with numerous very fine root-lvs., and a delicate capillary panicle. It grows in tufts like the above, and can be distinguished by the much longer and twisted awn. N. Amer., Eu. —Valuable
. 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. DESCHAMPSIA DEUTZIA 473 flexudsa, Trin. (Alra flexudsa, Linn.)- Wood Haik- Gbass. a slender, perennial grass, 1-2 ft. high, with numerous very fine root-lvs., and a delicate capillary panicle. It grows in tufts like the above, and can be distinguished by the much longer and twisted awn. N. Amer., Eu. —Valuable for woodland pastures, as it will grow well in the shade. Also used for ornament. P. B. Kennedy. DESIGN. The "design-work" of florists refers to formal arrangement of material as opposed to informal arrangement of cut-flowers. Funeral designs are per- haps the commonest. Dried grasses and everlasting flowers are used in funeral designs. The term design is borrowed from the language of art, and can also be applied to formal styles of bedding as opposed to the Informal border. Design work is less popular in America than in parts of the Old World, the distinguishing feature of our floriculture being the general taste for cut-flowers and for their free arrangement. Many pic- tures of designs may be seen in the florists' trade papers. DESMAZfiEIA. See Demazeria. DESMODIUM (Greek, a band or chain; referring to the jointed pods). By some called Meihomia. Leguini- ndsce. Tick Tkefoil. Mostly herbs, of 150 or more species, in temperate and warm regions of America, Asia, Africa and Australia. Lvs. pinnate, with 3-5 (rarely 1) leaflets: fls. small and papilionaceous, in ter- minal or axillary racemes in summer, mostly purple: pod flat, deeply lobed or jointed, the joints often break- ing apart and adhering to clothing and to animals by means of small hooked hairs. Fig. 694. A number of species are native to N. America, and are sometimes grown in the hardy border, where they th
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