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ZINNIA. 



The Zinnia is destined to be a very popular flower. The 

 plant is large and vigorous. The flowers are large, pro- 

 fuse, and brilliant. They have been wonderfully im- 

 proved during the last few years, and the improvement is 

 certain to continue year after year. 



The plants can be grown in a box in the house, as they 

 transplant with perfect safety; the oftener they are trans- 

 planted the better, as it gives us more and larger flowers 

 in proportion to the size of the plant. Set out the plants 

 fifteen inches to two feet apart. 



If preferred, the seeds can be sown out of doors, where 

 they are intended to remain. But a better plan is, to 

 sow a row of them, dropping the seeds about an inch 

 apart in the row; cover about an eighth of an inch deep, 

 and when the plants are well out of the seed leaf, set 

 them out in any part of the garden, where you have 

 room for a strong, vigorous-growing plant, two feet high 

 and two or three feet across. If the seed is good, the 

 first flowers may not be so large or so double as those 

 produced by the same plant later in the season. 



