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Reprinted from Breeze Hill 
News for Jsnn&ry 1037. el monte, los angeles county 
CALIFORNIA. U. S. A. 
ZINNIA LINEARIS 
One of the most interesting of the All America Seed Trials at 
Breeze Hill in 1936 v/as the little Zinnia Linearis, entered 
by Bodger Seeds, Ltd. 
When John Bodger visited Breeze Hill in the fall, he told us 
how he found this Zinnia in Australia in the spring of 1934. 
It seems that the hotel where he stopped in Sydney adjoined 
the Botanic Gardens, and his room on the thirteenth floor gave 
him a fine view of the gardens. The first morning there, while 
taking a pre-breakfast look out the v/lndow, his roving gaze was 
stopped by a solid bed of bright yellow, so unusual that no 
time was lost in getting to it. Unfortunately, there was very 
little information to be had, beyond the name, and supposing 
that it was a native-antipodean, he arranged for seed, which 
in due course arrived in California. The new plant was so good 
In the Bodger fields in 1935 that a seed supply was worked up 
for 1937 introduction. 
Ironically, the genus Zinnia is wholly American, and, according 
to Dr. Bailey, Zinnia Linearis is a native of Mexico. Yet, to 
get into gardens in the United States, but a few miles away from 
its native source, it had to travel half way around the earthl 
At Breeze Hill, plants from seed sown under glass May 8, and 
transplanted to the garden when conditions were right, were in 
full bloom the first week in July, and these plants continued 
to be a mass of gold until late September. They are very un- 
Zinnla llke--lf one thinks of the modern Zinnia. Linearis 
makes little compact mounds, some eight inches tall and probably 
a foot through, with very narrow foliage. The flowers, with 
a single row of petals, are one and one-fourth Inches in diam¬ 
eter; at first each golden orange petal carried a greenish 
stripe down the center and a greenish tip, but as the flower 
developed, the green turned to light yellow, making a pleasing 
contrast with the orange of the outer portions. The quarter- 
inch orange center cushion turned dark as the flower developed, 
adding to the attractiveness of the bloom. 
Although we grew it in a solid row, gardeners will find many uses 
for this fine plant once they see it. It is a real find, and a 
definite credit to the eagle eye of John Bodger.--R.M.H. 
CALIFORNIA’S CHOICEST FLOWER SEEDS — SINCE 
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