The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Waltham Abbey Seedling – Window-Bearing Orchid

Waltham Abbey Seedling

Kitchen. Fruit large. November and December. An admirable sort.

Warner's King

Kitchen. Fruit large, handsome, and good. November to March.

Worcestershire Pearmain

Kitchen. Fruit large, conical, of a very brilliant colour; flavour crisp and juicy. August to October. A splendid variety, said to be as prolific as Lord Suffield.

White Juneating

Dessert. Fruit small, very early, and good quality, but a bad keeper. July and August. A prolific sort.

Winter Strawberry

Dessert. Fruit yellow, medium, striped with red; flavour brisk aromatic. November to March. A very useful sort.

White Doyenne

Fruit medium, regular-obovate; eye small and closed; skin smooth, greenish-yellow, brightly flushed; flesh white, melting, juicy, and finely flavoured. October. One of the finest autumn Pears.

West's St

Peter's. Fruit deep purplish-black, medium, round; flesh firm, juicy, sweet, and at all times remarkably fresh; bunches medium-sized, tapering, well set. A late, vinous Grape, which keeps well.

White Chasselas

See Royal Muscadine.

White Frontignan

Fruit greenish-white, small, round; flesh firm, yet juicy, and very richly flavoured; bunches medium, long-cylindrical, well set. A mid-season Muscat Grape.

White Nice

Fruit pale greenish-white, medium-sized, round; flesh moderately firm, juicy, sweet, but not rich; bunches very large, somewhat loose and straggling. A late, vinous Grape.

Whitlavia

This is regarded, by the authors of the "Genera Plantarum," as synonymous with Phacelia.

The proper name of Whitlavia grandiflora (see Fig. 219) is now Phacelia Whitlavia.

Window-Bearing Orchid

See Cryptophoranthus.

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