DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERS. 



393 



ZINNIA. 



[Named in honor of J. G, Zinn, a German professor of botany.] 



Handsome border annual plants, requiring the same 

 cultivation as the Marigold. 



Zinnia elegans, with its varieties, are all handsome 

 flowering plants ; in bloom from July to October ; two 



DOUBLE ZINNIA. 



or three feet high. The colors of some of the varieties 

 are very briUiant, and particularly the scarlets. The col- 

 ors are white, pale to dark-yellow, orange to scarlet ; 

 shades from rose to crimson, from crimson to light-purple, 

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