. 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. WARDIAN CASES WASHINGTON 1963 tare, moisture and atmosphere. Similar cases are also used in greenhouses for growing (ilmy ferns, dwarf foli- age plants and other small specimens that ri-'qiiire a very moist and close atmosphere. They w ru invi-uted about 1836 by N. B. Ward, who wrote a book of Dfj pages "O
. 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. WARDIAN CASES WASHINGTON 1963 tare, moisture and atmosphere. Similar cases are also used in greenhouses for growing (ilmy ferns, dwarf foli- age plants and other small specimens that ri-'qiiire a very moist and close atmosphere. They w ru invi-uted about 1836 by N. B. Ward, who wrote a book of Dfj pages "On the Growth of Plants in Closely Glazed Cases," pub- lished at London in 1842. WARCZEWICZELLA. See Zy- goprtahnii. WARREA (named for Frederick Warre, who discovered the first species in Brazil). OrcJiiddcecs. Lvs. few, long, plicate: scape tall, bracted, bearing a raceme of termi- nal showy lis.: sepals and petals subequal, concave, the lateral se- pals united with the base of the column : labellum not spurred, imited with the base of the cohimn, undivided, concave, with longitud- inal ridges: column without ap- pendages: pollinia 4, with a nar- row stipe. Plants with the habit of small forms of Phaius. They require the same treatment as that genus. bidentata, Lindl. (W. Liudeni- dna, Heuf.). Labellum regular, slit at the end: ridges convex, the central ones thinner and deeper: bracts one-fourth as long as the pedicels. Sept. Venezuela and Colombia. A. F. 6:6;"J5. W. cyanea, Lindl. =Aganisia cyanea. Heinrich Hasselbring. WASHINGTON, HORTICUL- TURE IN. Fig. 2715. The state of Washington may be said to have two distinct climates, that to the west of the Cascades, and that to the east of this range of mountains. The climate of western Washington may, gen- erally speaking, be said to be very temperate. There are no very great variations iu temper- ature. The summers are cool, and in some parts somewhat dry. The winters are warm, or at least not cold. In some parts of wes
Size: 989px × 2527px
Photo credit: © Central Historic Books / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthor, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectgardening
