The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . a persistingcharacter. The rays are a dull red, turning to a faded brown, and so continue;while the disk, which at first is flat, projects as the florets successivelybloom, until it forms a cone, when it presents an unsightly species has long since been discarded from the flower-garden. Zinniapauciflora, or few-flowered, was introduced from Peru in 1753, and has agreat resemblance to Z. multiflora, except the small number of flowers, andthe color, which is a brownish yellow : this has also gone into exile with itsre
The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . a persistingcharacter. The rays are a dull red, turning to a faded brown, and so continue;while the disk, which at first is flat, projects as the florets successivelybloom, until it forms a cone, when it presents an unsightly species has long since been discarded from the flower-garden. Zinniapauciflora, or few-flowered, was introduced from Peru in 1753, and has agreat resemblance to Z. multiflora, except the small number of flowers, andthe color, which is a brownish yellow : this has also gone into exile with itsrelative. Zinnia elegans was introduced from Mexico in 1796, and is agreat improvement on the exiled members of the family. The flowers aremuch larger, and, when they commence blooming, are very ornamental; butas the florets of the disk begin to form seed, and it assumes the conical 3^4 The Zinnia Family. shape, the rays fade, and the disk has a dry and husky appearance, whichis characteristic of all the species : the flower is then far from being Zinnia Elegans, Double, Zinnia hybrida is of more recent introduction, and was introduced in1818 from South America: the flowers a brilliant scarlet. From this andZ. elegans have been produced all the beautiful colors now well known to The Zinnia Family. 325 this fiimily, consisting of scarlet, crimson, orange, yellow, purple, andwhite. Ten years ago, we did not even dream that a flower so rigid and uncouthin its last stages would ever be so transformed as to take its place amongthe so-called florists flowers ; but so it has, showing what can be done bythe patience and skill of the lover of flowers. It is within the last twelve or fifteen 3ears, that a florist in France per-ceived on zinnia plants, flowers that had doubled their ray petals. Theidea was suggested, that, if they had thus overstepped their natural charac-ter, there was a probability that a full double flower might be carefully saved the seed of th
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