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ZINNIA DABWINI. 
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flower-heads fully 2 in. across, and about in. in depth, built up of compactly- 
imbricating recurved florets, and affording much variety of colour, those sent to 
us including scarlet, orange-scarlet, orange-yellow, salmon-rose, lilac, rosy-purple 
of different shades, sulphur, and white. 
Zinnia Darwini major— nat. size. Zinnia Darwini vittata. 
Another large-headed form, called Zinnia Darwini vittata^ has the florets 
striped, the colours including white with purple flakes, purple with white 
flakes, yellow with crimson flakes, sulphur with purple flakes, &c. What is called 
Z. Darwini is of somewhat dwarfer growth, with the flower-heads smaller ; it is 
Zinnia Darwini— nat. size. Zinnia Darwini ptramidalis. 
compact in habit, very free-flowering, the flower-heads being rather conical, with 
regularly-imbricated florets, about in. deep and in. across, very full and high 
in the centre, the colours taking about the same range as in Z. Darwini major. 
The variety called pyramidalis is taller and thinner in its growth, but with more 
