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WEST VIKGIN1A 



WIGANDIA 



It becomes evident that a state with the limited terri- 

 tory of West Virginia must have some other compensat- 

 ing feature to render it capable of such varied products. 

 A glauce at its geographical location, at the varied alti- 

 tudes and exposures, is sufficient to account for the va- 

 riety of climate. Persimmons, papaws and watermelons 

 thrive on the lowland, cranberries on the mountain 

 glades, and in the higher altitudes the huckleberry finds 

 a congenial home. Huckleberries are annually gathered 

 in great quantities both for domestic uses and for ship- 

 ment. Certain local areas are expressly adapted to the 

 cultivation of sweet cherries, others to pears of the 

 better sorts, and nearly every corner of the state fur- 

 nishes ideal conditions for the blackberry and dewberry 

 — the Lucretia dewberry being a native. 



Tbe mountainous character of the state has been a 

 barrier to cheap railroad construction, and as a result 

 facilities for moving perishable products are not good, 

 and to-day hick of railroad facilities is the greatest 

 check to commercial horticulture. l q, Corbett. 



WHAHOO or WINGED ELM is Ulmus alata. 



WHEAT. See Triticum. 



WHEAT, INDIA. Fagopyrum Tataricum. 



WHIN. See Ulex. 



WHIPPLE A (Lieut, [afterward General] A. W 

 Whipple, commander of the Pacific Railroad Expedi 

 tion from the Mississippi to Los Angeles in 1853-54) 

 Saxifraghceas. A genus of one species, a trailing sub 

 shrub with clusters of small white fls. which soon be 

 come greenish. The clusters have 4-9 fls. and the petals 

 are a little more than a twelfth of an inch long. The 

 plant blooms in March and April and is native to w r oods 

 in the Coast Ranges of Calif. W. modesta, Torr., was 

 offered in the East for western collectors in 1881, but 

 the plant is horticulturally unknown. It is fully de- 

 scribed in Bot. Calif, and in Jepson's Flora of Western 

 Middle California. 



WHITANIA. Catalogue error for Withania. 



WHITE ALDER. Sometimes applied in America to 

 Olethra alni folia. White -and- Blue Flower is Cuphea 

 Llavea. White Cedar. Chamcecyparis spha-roidea. See 

 also Thuya. W. Cup. Ifieremberaia rirulnris. W. 

 Hellebore. Veratrum. W. Thorn. Cratu-niix. Whiteweed. 

 Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum. Whitewood. Tulip- 

 tree and Linden (Liriodendron, Tilia). 



WHITFIELDIA (after Thomas Whitfield, intrepid 

 naturalist who made several explorations into tropical 

 western Africa and brought hack many choice plants). 

 Acanthaceoe. A genus of 2 species of tropical African 

 herbs, one with white, the other with brick-red flowers. 

 The latter is a bushy evergreen plant with numerous 

 branches terminated by racemes of about 8 dull red fls. 

 each an inch long. The calyx and corolla and often the 

 large bracts are all colored alike. This species has been 

 considered a desirable stove plant, and the first speci- 

 men known to cultivation bloomed from October to 

 March. It is, however, practically unknown in Amer- 

 ica. It has been catalogued in the American trade, but 

 seems to be little known. 



Generic characters: calyx 5-parted ; segments colored, 

 oblong or lanceolate; corolla-tube swelled almost from 

 the base, or slender and cylindrical below and abruptly 

 inflexed above, widening into a bell -shaped throat; 

 lobes 5, ovate or oblong-lanceolate; stamens 4, didyna- 

 mous. 



lateritia, Hook. Tender, evergreen, red-fld. subshrab 

 about 3 ft. high: lvs. opposite, entire, ovate or oblong 

 ovate, wavy: corolla between bell- and funnel-shaped. 

 Western Ti-op. Afr. B.M. 4155. F.S. 1:36. W. M. 



WHITLAVIA. See Phacelia. 



WHITLOW GRASS. Draba. 



WHITLOW-WORT. See Paronychia. 



WHORTLEBERRY. See Vaccinium. 



WIDDRINGTONIA (Capt. Widdrington, formerly 

 Cook, who traveled in Spain). Conif&roz. W. Whytei, 

 M. Wood, is a coniferous tree from southeastern Africa, 

 probably not hardy N. It grows at an altitude of 

 5,000 to 7,000 ft. on Mt. Milanji in Nyassaland and is 

 known as the Milanji Cypress or Cedar. Seedlings of it 

 were first cultivated in 1894 at Kew, and plants have 

 recently been offered in Calif. According to Davy, it is 

 proving to be quite hardy near San Francisco. The 

 wood is dull reddish white, strongly aromatic, and locally 

 used for furniture and for doors and windows. The tree 

 attains a maximum height of 140 ft., with a girth of 

 ")'.> ft. at a point 6 ft. above the ground, the trunk being 

 clear for 90 ft. The species has glaucous, linear, juniper- 

 like foliage and a cone smaller than a chestnut and longer 

 than broad. Widdringtonia is considered by Bentham 

 and Hooker as a subgenus of Callitris. Franceschi, how- 

 ever, reports that it has proved quite delicate to raise 

 in S. Calif. 



WIGANDIA (Johannes Wigand, Pomeranian bishop; 

 wrote on plants in 1590). HydrophyUacea. About 7 

 species of tall, coarse perennial herbs or subshrubs 

 native to mountainous regions from Mexico to the 

 Argentine Republic. The fls. are 5-lobed, mostly violet, 

 1-1% in. across and borne to the number of 30 or more 

 in lax, terminal, cymose panicles. Wigandias are chiefly 

 valued as foliage plants for subtropical bedding, because 

 of their very showy character. Their leaves are cov- 

 ered with stinging hairs, similar to nettles. Many large 

 specimens may be seen in California, but the plants 

 are considered to be rather coarse and straggling. 



2722. Wifrandia Caracasana (X %). 



They are generally raised from seed every year, the 

 seed being started indoors as early as January. The 

 plants attain a height of 6-10 ft. in a single season. 

 They are unsatisfactory greenhouse plants, as they do 

 not grow vigorously indoors. The roots may be kept 

 over winter in a frostless place and stock may be se- 

 cured in spring by cuttings. 



Wigandias have large, alternate, wrinkled lvs. with 



