ZIN'NIA MULTIFLO'RA. 
RED FLOWERED ZINNIA. 
Order. 
POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 
Natural Order. 
CORYMBIFEREjE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
N. America. 
15 inches. 
June, Sept. 
Annual. 
in 1763. 
No. 97. 
Zinnia is a name instituted by Linneus, and given 
to this genus in honour of Dr. John Godfrey Zinn, 
professor of physic and botany at Gottingen; a 
disciple of Haller, and author of several botanical 
treatises. Multiflora, from the Latin multi, many; 
and flores, flowers; which is expressive of its free- 
blooming habit. 
The very name multiflora pronounces this well- 
known annual a desirable appendage to the parterre. 
Though its blossoms possess less brilliancy of colour 
than many others, the quantity of them, and particu- 
larly their duration, will amply compensate for the 
deficiency in comparison with most of the annual 
visitants of the gay flower garden. 
The seeds of Zinnia multiflora should be sown 
about the latter end of March; and if planted in 
the compartment where they are intended to flower, 
the soil should be made light and fine; though if 
too sandy and dry, the plants will not be luxuriant. 
It will generally prove advantageous to raise them 
on a weak hotbed, and transplant them into the bor- 
ders in showery weather, when the plants are about 
two inches high. 
Class. 
SYNGENESIA. 
2 5 
Hurt. Kew. 2, v. 5, 92. 
