. 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. w WAAHOO, WAHOO, or BURNING BUSH is A'hoh;/- 7}iiis atropurpiireHa. Utmus afata, the Winged Elm, is also called Whahoo or Wahoo. WAFER ASH. Ptelea trifoUata. WAHLENBfiRGIA grandiSlora. See Platycodon. WAITZIA (P. A. C. Waitz, born 17G8, state physician to the Dutch at Samarang, Java; wrote on Javanese plants).
. 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. w WAAHOO, WAHOO, or BURNING BUSH is A'hoh;/- 7}iiis atropurpiireHa. Utmus afata, the Winged Elm, is also called Whahoo or Wahoo. WAFER ASH. Ptelea trifoUata. WAHLENBfiRGIA grandiSlora. See Platycodon. WAITZIA (P. A. C. Waitz, born 17G8, state physician to the Dutch at Samarang, Java; wrote on Javanese plants). Co>np6sU(e. Includes one of the rarer "ever- lasting flowers," a half-hardy annual which grows about \% ft. high and bears flat-topped clusters of yellow flower-heads, with a golden disk. The clusters are about 5 in. across, and the heads 2 in. across, the showy part being the involucral bracts, which are arranged in 4 or 5 series, and are petal-like in character but of stiffer texture than ordinarj' petals. Waltzia is a genus of 7 species of Australian herbs, mostly annuals: Ivs. alternate, linear or nearly so; in terminal corymbs or rarely in oblong, leafy racemes: involucre various in outline, the bracts overlapping in many rows, all colored and petal-like: receptacle flat, without scales: anthers provided with tails of microscopic size: akenes somewhat compressed, glabrous or papillose, termi- nating in a slender beak; pappus of capillary bristles usually cohering at the base, simple, barbellate or plu- mose. The genus is distinguished from Helipterum and Helichrysum by the beaked akenes. Flora Australien- sis, vol. 3. grrandiSldra, W. Thompson. (The authorship of this species is credited to Naudin by Judex Kewensis.) Half-hardy everlasting or "immortelle," annual, ex- ceeding 18 in. in height: Ivs. lanceolate, long-acumi- nate, sessile, green above, slightly villous beneath, prominent midrib beneath: Hs. yellow, in terminal coryml)s. F. 18f
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