ZAUSCHNERIA. [Onagraces.] A pretty plant for 

 bedding, though its blooming season is often shortened 

 by the frost. It forms a dense bushy mass, covered with 

 scarlet fuchsia or honeysuckle-like erect flowers. Garden 

 soil. Propagated by cuttings and division. It requires 

 greenhouse protection in winter in the Northern States. 



Z. Californica (Californian) ; half-hardy perennial ; i8 inches; 

 flowers scarlet, in August ; California ; 1847. 



Zenobia. See Andromeda. 



Zinnia. [Compositas.] A genus of Mexican annuals, 

 bearing flowers of many different colors, seedling varie-ties 

 having become numerous. The most ornamental species is 

 Z. elegans^ which grows best in peaty soil, and in a cool sit- 

 uation. The plant may be termed coarse, and is better- 

 looking in moderate than in rich soil. The seed may be 

 sown in the open ground, or in heat, according to the time 

 it IS desired to be in flower. When large enough, it may be 

 planted out at once into beds a foot apart, or in the border 

 three in a patch. When seed has been saved from a single 

 plant, and none other has been near, the plants have come 

 pretty constant to the parent ; but, generally speaking, in 

 the seed tliat is purchased we obtain all the colors from 

 scarlet to light-pink and to dark-crimson, and all the shades 

 from dark-chocolate to light-purple and lilac. It is a diffi- 

 cult matter to produce, year after year, anything like con- 



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