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WIR 



sides spuds, weeding pincers, and hoes, 

 there are several implements invent- 

 ed for eradicating the deeper-rooting 

 ■weeds. Such are Hall's Land Crab 

 (Fig. 179), Dockspuds and the Guernsey 

 Weeding Prong (Fig. ISO). 



WEEVIL. See Anthonomus and 

 Otiorhyncus. 



WEIGHTS. 



AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT. 



16 Drachms, 1 ounce. 



WELCH ONION. See Cihoule. 



WENDLANDIA parazcu/a/a. A Stove 

 evergreen tree ; and W. populifolia, a 

 green-house evergreen twiner. Cut- 

 tings. Loam, peat and sand. 



WESTRINGIA. Ten species. Green- 

 house evergreen shrubs. Young cut- 

 tings. Light rich soil. 



WHEELBARROWS. The greater 



If a wheelbarrow be made of wood, 

 the feet and handles should be capped 

 with iron, and its joints strengthened 

 with bands of the same metal. Iron 

 barrows are now made weighing no 

 more than ninety-two pounds, and they 

 run very light. 



The longer the handles of a wheel- 

 barrow are, and the nearer the load to 

 the wheel, the easier is that load lifted, 

 and the easier is the barrow turned over 

 to discharge the load. 



WHIRLING PLANT, Desmodium 

 gyrans. 



WHITE BEAN TREE. Pyrus Avia. 



WHITE CEDAR. Cupressm thy- 

 aides. 



WHITE SPRUCE. Pinm Alba. 



WHITE TREE. Melaleuca Leuca- 

 dendron. 



WHITE VINE. Clematis vitalba. 



WHITEFIELDIA lateritia. Stove 

 evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Leafy 

 mould and loam. 



WHORTLE BERRY. Vaccinium. 



WIDOW WAIL. Cneorum. 



WIGANDIA caracasana. Stove de- 

 ciduous shrub. Seeds. Loam and peat. 



WILDERNESS. See Labyrinth. 



WILD LIQUORICE. Abi-us. 



WILD SERVICE. Pyrus torminalis. 



WILDENOVIA. Two species. 



the diameter of the wheel of a barrow. Grasses. Division. Loam and peat, 

 and the smaller the axis or spindle on I WILLEMETIA africana. Stove 

 which it turns, the less power will be j evergreen shrub. Young cuttings. 

 required to drive it forward ; for the Sandy loam and peat. 



friction is proportionately reduced. 



The diameter of the wheel might be 

 increased with manifest advantage to 

 double that now employed, for even 

 then it would be below the point of 

 draught or impulsion (the hand of the 

 labourer) ; and the nearer it can be 

 brought to a level with this, the more 

 efficiently he exerts his power. I 



The breadth ofthe wheel's periphery, 

 or felloes, might be also increased two 

 inches advantageously; for, as it is al- 

 ways employed upon a surface in some 

 degrees soft, such an increased breadth 

 would decrease the depth to which the 

 wheel of a loaded barrow usually sinks 

 into the soil, and would proportionately 

 decrease the power required to over- 

 come the augmented opposition. In a 

 wheelbarrow so constructed, a man 



WILLOW. Salix. 



WILLUGHBEIA edulis. Stove ever- 

 green shrub. Cuttings. Loam, peat, 

 and sand. 



WIND FLOWER. Gentiana Pneu- 

 monanthe, and Anemone. 



WINGED PEA. Tetragonolobus pur- 

 pureus. 



WINTER ACONITE. Eranthis. 



WINTER BERRY. Prinos. 



WINTER CHERRY. Physalis, and 

 Cardiospermum Halicacabum. 



WINTER CRESS. Earbarea. 



WINTER MOTH. See Cheimatobia. 



WINTER SWEET. Origanum hera- 

 cleoticum. 



WIRE -WORMS are the larva; of 

 various species of Elater, Click Beetle, 

 or Skip Jack. Of these there are more 



might move with more ease eight hun- , than fifty species; but the most common 

 dred weight, than he now impels five are: — 



hundred weight, which is a full barrow 

 load. 



E. segetis, of which the wire-worm is 

 often so abundant in old pastures, and 



