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fringed. Tubular florets with a hairy difk— Native of 

 Mexico ; faid to have been brought to England from Ma- 

 drid, in 1706, by the late marchionefs of Bute ; whole bo- 

 tanical acquilitions in Spain, made with no lefs intelligence 

 thantafte, have eminently enriched the gardens of England. 

 This is alfo a tender annual, flowering from Midfummer to 

 the end of autumn. The herbage is llouter, the leaves 

 broader, and much more harlh to the touch, like a hie, than 

 in any other of the genus. Flowers, in a cultivated ilate at 

 leaft, as large as the laft, with a conical, but rather obtufe, 

 dllk ■ the prominent orange-coloured fcales of the receptacle 

 have many finely-fringed fegments ; the upper furface of the 

 yellow tubular /or<-/j is denfely fliaggy ; the radius confifts 

 of numerous, fpreading, obovate /orrfj, of a deep lilac, or 

 light purple, colour, lefs harfli, or fcariofe, after flowering 

 than in the multlflora. t t> 



r. Z. temilfiora. Slender-flowered Zinnia. Jac. Ic. Rar. 

 t. 590. WiUd. n.5. Ait. n. 5. Curt. Mag. t. 555. (Z. 

 revoluta; Cavan. Ic. v. 3. 26. t. 251.) — Flowers llalked. 

 Leaves oppofite, ovato-lanceolate, pointed. Calyx cyhn- 

 drical. Radiant florets linear, revolute. — Native of Mexico. 

 Raifed here in 1 799, by the late captain Woodford, at Vaux- 

 hall. This very diftinft fpccies requires the fame treatment 

 as the refl;. They may all, perhaps, fucceed, in favourable 

 feafons, as hardy annuals, but are befl; raifed with artificial 

 heat in the fpring. The prefent has much narrower leaves 

 than the lalt, which moreover are nearly fmooth. The 

 Jlowers are the fmalleft of their genus, and difliinguiflied by 

 their bright red, narrow, revolute radiant fords, very rougli 

 at the edges ; the tubular forets are yellow, roughilh in 

 their dilk. 



Zinnia, iu Gardening, contains plants of the annual flow- 

 ering kind, in which the fpecies cultivated are, the few- 

 flowered yellow zinnia (Z. pauciflora), and the many- 

 flowered red zinnia (Z. multlflora). 



Thefe are both plants of the annual flower kind. 



Method of Culture Thefe annual plants are increafed 



from feeds, which fliould be fown on a flight hot-bed in 

 the early fpring, as Marcli ; and when the plants are a few 

 inches high, they fltould be pricked out on another bed pre- 

 vioufly prepared to receive them, where they fhould re- 

 main tUl the advance of fummer, when they may be taken 

 up and planted out in the borders of the pleafure-ground, 

 where they blow and complete their feeds for the year fol- 

 lowing. 



They have a fine effeft in their leaves and flowers in thefe 

 fituations. 



ZINNORE, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 Guzerat, on theNerbuddah ; 30 miles N.E. of Baroaclu 



ZINTEN, a town of Pruffia, in the province of Natan- 

 gen, near which the Poles were defeated in 1520 ; 30 miles 

 S.S.W. of Konigflaerg. N. lat. 54° 23'. E. long. 

 20° 20'. 



ZINTI, a town of South America, in the viceroyalty 

 oF Buenos Ayres, and archbifiiooric of La Plata ; 90 miles 

 S. of La Plata. 



ZINU, a province of South America, in the viceroyalty 

 of New Grenada, fituated to the north of Choco, and weft 

 of Carthagena. 



ZiNU, or Sinu, a town of South America, and capi- 

 tal of a province, on a river of the fame name, which runs 

 into the Spanifli Main ; 90 miles S. of Carthagena. N. lat. 

 8^58'. W. long. 75° 48'. 



ZINWALD, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Leit- 

 meritz ; 18 miles N.W. of Leitmeritz. 



ZINZENDORF, Nicholas Louis, in Biography, was 

 born at Drefden in May 1700, and was educated under the 



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infpeftion of his grandmother, who was a pious woman, ac- 

 cuftomed to the perufal of the Scriptures. He was thus 

 led into an early acquaintance with the principal doftrines 

 of the Chrifl;ian religion, and manifefled a peculiar tafte for 

 fpiritual fongs. Under profeflbr Franke at Halle, he be- 

 came a good claffical fcholar ; and his facility in compofing 

 verfes was fuch, that he indited them fafl;er than he could 

 write them. Such, however, was his pronenefs to diflipation, 

 and particularly gaming, that he fquandered away not only 

 his money, but all his efFefts. From his youth he was fond 

 of forming religious focieties, and it is faid that he had efta- 

 bhftied feven aflbciations of this kind between the year 17 10 

 and the year 1 7 16, when he left Halle. One of his com- 

 panions in forming tbefe inftitutions was baron Frederick von 

 Watteville, in intercourfe with whom he firft conceived the 

 idea of attempting the converfion of the heathens. With 

 this view they bound themfelves by an oath, and determined 

 to employ others in accomplifhing this defign who were pro- 

 perly qualified for the office. This refolution feems to have 

 taken its rife from a baptized native of Malabar, who had 

 been brought to Halle by the miflionary Ziegenbalg. In 

 1 7 16 Zinzendorf removed to Wittenberg, where he applied 

 diligently to his fl:udies ; and in 1 7 19 he quitted Witten- 

 berg, in order to gratify his relations by purfuing his tra- 

 vels. On his tour he remained for fome time at Utrecht, 

 profecuting his ftudies in hiftory and jurifprudence ; but his 

 chief attention was direfted to theology, as he had formed a 

 purpofe of becoming a preacher. From Holland he pro- 

 ceeded to Paris, where he aflbciated with his friend, Henry, 

 prince of Reufs, and endeavoured to fpread his doflrine 

 among the Catholic nobility, by fome of whom they were 

 treated with refpeft, while others contemptuoufly denomi- 

 nated them Janfenifts and Pietifls. At this time he was in- 

 troduced by Father de la Tour, general of the Society of 

 the Oratory, to the archbifliop of Paris, and attempts were 

 made, without effeft, for gaining him over to the Catholic 

 church. During his abode at Paris he formed an acquaint- 

 ance with feveral other perfons of diftinftion. From Paris 

 he proceeded through Switzerland to Germany in 1720, and 

 having arrived at Hernfdorf, in Lufatia, he found his 

 grandmother ftill living, and employed himfelf in communi- 

 cating inftruftion to the domeftics,and correfpondingwith his 

 friends. Soon after, retaining his purpofe of becoming a 

 preacher, he went to Drefden, and having received his pro- 

 perty from thofe with whom it had been entrufted, he pur- 

 chafed the lordfliip of Bertholdfdorf, in Lufatia, and mar- 

 rying a filter of the prince of Reufs, dillinguifhed for her 

 piety and virtue, he affigned to her his whole property, that 

 he might not be incumbered and diverted from the profecu- 

 tion of his defign by the cares of the world. About the 

 year 1722 he indulged the notion of a purer church difci- 

 phne, of which he obferved fome traces among the Bohe- 

 mian and Moravian brethren, who, from their earliefl; con- 

 nexion with the Waldenfes and true followers of John 

 Hufs, had formed a peculiar religious community. The 

 Chriftians of this defcription had undergone from the year 

 145S to 1627 fevere perfecutions, fo that they were almoft 

 extirpated from Germany ; but a fmall number of them re- 

 mained, under oppreflion, in Moravia ; and about the year 

 1720 the feft revived : fo that they held frequent meetings, 

 read the Scriptures with their old books of hymns, cele- 

 brated in fecret the holy facrament, and introduced, at leaft 

 in their houfes, the ancient church difcipline. One of their 

 number, of obfcure condition, obtained an introduftion to 

 count Zinzendorf, who gave them leave to fettle on his 

 eftate at Bertholdfdorf. Availing themfelves of this permif- 

 fion, a fmall number of them, confiftingof three men, two 



women. 



