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 élegans, 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 brilliant, 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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