. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. ZINNIA ZINNIA 2011 compared with the dahlia. Among gardeu composites its only rivals in point of color range are the chrysan- themum, dahlia, China aster and cineraria. Among gar- den annuals in general the Zinnia ranks with the most useful kinds, and many persons would place it among tlie twelve most popular o
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. ZINNIA ZINNIA 2011 compared with the dahlia. Among gardeu composites its only rivals in point of color range are the chrysan- themum, dahlia, China aster and cineraria. Among gar- den annuals in general the Zinnia ranks with the most useful kinds, and many persons would place it among tlie twelve most popular of annual tlowers. Zinnias are formal flowers, rather stiff in habit, with excep- tional depth of flower, and in technical perfection a lit- tle short of the dahlia: the rays are rather rigid and overlap one another with somewhat monotonous pre- cision, and the colors are metallic as compared with the soft hues of the China aster. Historical Sketch. —The Zinnia (Z. eJegans), with its great range of color and perfection of form, is now so much a matter of course that the present generation is surprised to learn that it is one of the most recent of "florists' ; A double Zinnia probably was not seen in America before the Civil War. In the early six- ties, the Zinnia was a sensation of the floral world; in the seventies it ceased to be fashionable and as early as 1882 it was spoken of as an "old-fashioned" flower. Its course was run in twenty years. The single form of the Zinnia is iiow cultivated only for its scientific or amateur interest. Single Zinnias are not offered by tradesmen and occur only as degen- erates from the double form. The first double forms appeared in 1858 at the nursery of M. Grazau, at Bagnferes, France, amongst a number of plants raised from seed received from the West Indies. The double forms were introduced to the public by Vilmorin in 1800. Probably the earliest colored plate of double Zinnias is that in Flore des Serres publi
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