Plate 92. 
VARIETIES OE DOUBLE ZINNIA. 
Zinnia elegans,flore pleno. 
There has not been an annual introduced for many years 
into this country which has received such universal recog¬ 
nition, as an excellent and useful addition to our gardens, as 
the Double Zinnia; and, although we published a plate of 
them in our last volume (Plate 33), we make no apology for 
bringing before our subscribers another group from the pencil 
of Mr. Andrews, the opportunity of so doing having been 
afforded us by the kindness of the eminent London seedsmen, 
Messrs. Carter & Co. of Holborn. 
Our reason for so doing is, that there are evidently two 
distinct strains of them in the country, and one, in our opinion, 
very much inferior to the other in every quality; in one the 
flower is comparatively shallow, partaking more of the shape 
of the old single Zinnia, without much regularity in the dis¬ 
position of the petals; in the other it is of very great depth, 
exceeding, in some cases, three inches (as in some specimens 
which we saw in the garden of our friend and neighbour, 
Mr. Edward Banks, of Sholden*), the petals regularly reflex¬ 
ing, somewhat in the manner of some of the newly-introduced 
Chrysanthemum-flowered Asters, and disposed very regularly and 
closely, so as to give the appearance of a thoroughly double 
flower. It is the latter variety which we have figured; and, al¬ 
though at present absolute certainty cannot be obtained as to 
every individual seed coming true to character, yet, as some 
seedsmen advertise them as doing so in the ratio of 80 and 90 
per cent., and as the gentleman who is styled the “ Sardinian 
Correspondent ” of Messrs. Barr & Sugden announces twenty- 
four varieties, we have very little doubt but that in a year or 
* This seed was obtained from Mr. W. Thompson, of Ipswich. 
