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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ February, 
get three days’ smoke and sulphur on to my plants for his one ; and manure is 
the only thing I find that will enable the plants to withstand its effects. [Mr. 
Eudd’s postscript is very pertinent, and one the cultivator will do well to 
remember, for it is a certain fact that plants in localities unfavourable for their 
development require, equally with man, more of stimulant than would otherwise 
be judicious. But the cultivator must also bear in mind that this stimulated 
life, like that of man in similar conditions, will also be the shorter^ and he will be 
wise rather to under than over-feed the objects of his care.—E. S. D.] 
Zinnia Darwini major— l-7th of nat. Bize. 
ZINNIA DAKWINI. 
new race of Zinnias, flowers of which have been sent to us by Messrs. 
Haage and Schmidt, to whom we are also indebted for the annexed illus- 
f trations, is, as we learn from them, the result of a cross which they have 
effected between Z. Haageana^ Kl. (niexicana^ Lindl.), and the double Z. 
elegans, and to it they have given the above name. It proves to be very constant 
to its peculiar features. The leaves on the specimens before us, are sessile, triangu¬ 
lar-ovate, acute, and three-nerved. The flowers in all the types we have seen are full 
double, and are very faithfully shown in the separate enlarged figures, while the 
reduced figure gives a good idea of the bushy habit and floriferous character of the 
plant. This plant represents the form called Z. Darwini major^ which produces 
