ZIN NIA ELEGANS. 
PURPLE-FLOWERED ZINNIA. 
Class. Order. 
SYNGENESIA. POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 
Natural Order. 
CORYMB1FER2E. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Mexico. 
2 feet. 
July, Sept. 
Annual. 
in 1796. 
No. 170. 
This genus was named after Dr. Zinn, of Got- 
tingen. Elegans, from the Latin, handsome. In 
th e Botanical Repository, this species istreated of 
under the name of Zinnia violacea, after Cava- 
nilles ; but it having been previously published by 
Jacquin, as Zinnia elegans, this appellation has 
prior claim to adoption. 
This is an annual of considerable beauty, and 
though it does not produce so great a succession 
of flowers as we are supplied with by the majority 
of our favourites, still, for this deficiency, ample 
compensation is made, by a longer duration of each 
flower in perfection. 
Young plants may be successfully raised, by 
sowing the seeds in a hotbed, in March. When they 
are an inch or two high, they should be potted, 
two or three together, and be gradually hardened 
to the atmosphere. In the middle of May they 
will be strong plants to turn into the open ground, 
which should be done without disturbing their 
roots. In the absence of a hotbed, the seeds may 
be sown in a rich light soil, in the open ground, in 
the beginning of April. 
Hort. Kew 2, v. 5, 92. 
