3496 



WAITZIA 



WALKS 



It seems to have replaced W. aurea, Steetz, the favorite 

 of a former generation, being larger-fld., more robust, 

 and rather easier of cult. WILHELM MILLER. 



WAKE ROBIN: In England, Arum maculatum; in America, 

 Trillium. 



3972. Yellow or barren strawberry- Waldsteinia fragarioides. 

 (XM) 



WALDSTEINIA (named after Franz Adam, Count 

 of Waldstein-Wartenburg, born 1759 at Vienna; wrote 

 with Kitaibel an illustrated work on rare plants of 

 Hungary; died 1823). Rosacese. Creeping herbs with 

 the habit of Fragaria, perennial and hardy, used in the 

 border as an edging and on rockeries. 



Leaves mainly radical, 3-5-lobed or -divided: fls. 

 small, yellow, borne on bracted scapes; calyx-tube 

 inversely conical, limb 5-cleft, with 5 often minute and 

 deciduous bractlets; petals 5; stamens many, inserted 

 into the throat of the calyx: achenes 2-6, minutely 

 hairy. About 5 species, Cent, and E. Eu., N. Asia, and 

 Temp. E. N. Amer. Of simple cult. 



The yellow or barren strawberry, W. fragarioides, is 

 a little plant that looks much like a slender strawberry 

 but it has yellow flowers and bears no edible fruit. It is 

 a hardy North American tufted perennial herb, about 4 

 inches high, with glossy leaves composed of three 

 wedge-shaped leaflets, and fiye-petaled flowers less than 

 % inch across. It comes with the first rush of spring, 

 and continues to bloom until summer. There is little 

 satisfaction in growing only a few plants of this wild 

 flower. The plant is appropriate to the rockery, where 

 every effort should be made to induce it to form a large 

 mat. Masses of the yellow strawberry have been used 

 with good effect for edging shrubbery borders, and the 

 plant is listed in the trade. 



fragarioides, Tratt. Fig. 3972. Pubescent or nearly 

 glabrous: Ifts. dentate or crenate except at the base, 

 1-2 in. long: scapes corymbosely 3-8-fld.: achenes 4-6. 

 May, June. Woods and shaded hillsides, New England 

 to Minn, and Ind., along the Alleghanies to Ga. B.B. 

 2:218. R.H. 1890, p. 510. B.M. 1567 and L.B.C. 

 5:408 (both as Dalibarda fragarioides). 



sibirica, Tratt. (W. trifdlia, Rochel. W. trifoliata, 

 Steud.). Sts. creeping, pilose, leafy at their tip: Ivs. 

 erect, alternate, petioled, ternate; Ifts. very short- 

 petioluled, obovate, base cuneiform, entire; stipules 

 none: scapes 1 or several, axillary, 3-5-fld.: fls. her- 

 maphrodite, nodding, white; calyx-lobes ovate; petals 

 spreading, subrotund. Siberia. J.H. III. 45:217. 



lobata, Torr. & Gray. Foliage slightly hairy; Ivs. 

 cordate, 3-lobed, the lobes crenate with mucronulate 

 teeth; petioles slender, longer than blades: scapes about 

 as long as Ivs.: sepals triangular-lanceolate, acute; 

 petals narrowly oblong or elliptic: achenes usually 2, 

 densely pubescent. S. W. Ga. F.TRACY HuBBARof. 



WALKING-LEAF FERN: Camptosorus. 



WALKS, PATHS, AND DRIVEWAYS. That gardens 

 and grounds may be reached at all times in any weather, 

 walks are introduced to afford dry comfortable routes. 

 They should be laid out to conform to and emphasize 

 the garden design. However, too much gravel or a 

 too complicated system will mar the purpose and scale 

 of the garden and detract from its charm. It is neces- 

 sary, therefore, that the paths be kept in proportion 

 by adopting various widths according to the amount of 

 travel expected and the importance of certain lines in 

 the design. Principal lines or "axes" of the design may 

 be emphasized by widths of 6 to 14 feet; secondary by 

 4 to 8 feet; minor, 2J^ to 4 feet. It may be added that 

 straight paths should be wider proportionately than 

 curving ones. Paths may also be maintained in scale 

 by use of different materials, using stone or brick for 

 the principal ones; gravel, tanbark, or stepping-stones 

 for secondary; grass for the least important. The 

 color of path material also influences the garden appear- 

 ance, and the simpler the garden character the less 

 pronounced should be its path-colors. Turf is the least 

 and cement the most conspicuous of materials. 



Grass paths should be designed for unusual wear, 

 and a depth of at least a foot of well under-drained soil 

 provided. Many simple gardens have turf paths only, 

 but these are at a disadvantage in wet weather or dew. 

 If the wear is more than grass will stand, or the 

 garden lines need more emphasis, stepping-stones may 

 be introduced in the grass. (Fig. 3973.) 



Stepping-stone paths are simplest made of native 

 rock of irregular shapes (Fig. 3974); more refined if of 

 native rock, hammer-dressed; and still more refined if 

 of regular blocks, slate, flag, or cement, (12 by 12 

 inches) square, or (12 by 24 inches) rectangular (Fig. 

 3974). The stones should be set 20 inches apart, 



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3973. A good garden walk. 



