. The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . 4. GAZANIA 6PLENDENS. As a decorative plant, for vases or pots, it is equally adapted,blooming freely, and not liable to the attacks of insects, whichoften injure or destroy more tender-foliaged plants. For thisreason, and its other fine qualities, it must prove one of themost brilliant and effective flowers yet introduced. JANUARY. 41 THE DOUBLE ZINNIA. The Zinnia, in its many varieties, is one of the most familiar,as it is one of the most showy, annuals. For years and yearsit has been exten
. The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . 4. GAZANIA 6PLENDENS. As a decorative plant, for vases or pots, it is equally adapted,blooming freely, and not liable to the attacks of insects, whichoften injure or destroy more tender-foliaged plants. For thisreason, and its other fine qualities, it must prove one of themost brilliant and effective flowers yet introduced. JANUARY. 41 THE DOUBLE ZINNIA. The Zinnia, in its many varieties, is one of the most familiar,as it is one of the most showy, annuals. For years and yearsit has been extensively cultivated, but without any otherchange than the addition of some new tint, which, in its spor-tive character, has been obtained in common with other appearance of anything like a double flower has ever beenseen till very recently. Messrs. Vilmorin, the great French. 5. DOUBLE ZINNIA. florists, state, that all their attempts to produce a doublevariety have been unsuccessful. Yet the past year magnificent specimens of double Zinniashave been exhibited in London, both from English and Frenchcultivators, which attracted unusual attention, and were of somuch merit as to elicit awards of first class certificates fromthe Floral Committee of the London Horticultural Society. Singular as it may appear, these double Zinnias are ofEastern origin, the seeds having been first received from the 42 THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. East Indies, by M. Grazani of Bagneres, France, and subse-quently by Messrs. Carter of London. Messrs. Vilmorin sawthem with M. Grazani in 1858, and now for the first time theyare introduced to the pubhc. How they came to India is atpresent unknown; but that they are a great acquisition, not a whit less interesting than that of double Dahlias,is admitted even by Dr. Lindley. A full account of the in-teresting exhibition of flowers will b
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