"Zinnia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... arvensis. Cirsium lanceolatum. Conyza squarrosa! Inula dysenterica! Tragopogon porrifolium. Cnicus palustris. Carduus arvensis! Helianthus tuberosus! annuus. Cineraria palustris. Helianthus sp.! Dahlia variabilis. Bellis perennis inflor.! Coreopsis sp.! Crepis virens. Lactuca sativa! Zinnia elegans. *Campanula medium! rapunculoides. thyrsoidea. Dipsacus pilosus. fullonum. silvestris. Knautia arvensis. Phyteuma orbiculare. Jasione montana. *Linaria purpurea! Antirrhinum majus! Veronica amethystea. Veronica ...
— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters
... ageratum, aster, calendula, calliopsis, balsam, candytuft, cornflower, cosmos, marigold, mignonette, nasturtium, petunia, poppy, stock, sweet alyssum, sweet-pea, verbena, zinnia, annual ...
— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools • Ministry of Education Ontario
... flower to harden one's heart. Just now they have cleared off every blossom out of the garden except my zinnias, which grow magnificently and make the devastated flower-bed still gay with every hue and tint a zinnia can put on—salmon-color, rose, scarlet, pink, maroon, and fifty shades besides. On the veldt too the flowers have passed by, but their place is taken by the grasses, which are all in seed. People say the grass is rank and poor, and of not much account as food ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - Vol. XVII, No. 102. June, 1876. • Various
... The Zinnia is an excellent plant where a low hedge is desired. It averages a height of three feet. It is compact and symmetrical in habit, branching quite close to the ground. It is a rapid grower, and of the very easiest ...
— Amateur Gardencraft - A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover • Eben E. Rexford
... ultimately all, with the rarest exceptions, vary to a greater or less extent. In a few cases the requisite number of generations, as well as the successive steps in the progress of variation, have been recorded, as in the often-quoted instance of the Dahlia.[626] After several years' culture the Zinnia has only lately (1860) begun to vary in any great degree. "In the first seven or eight years of high cultivation the Swan River daisy (Brachycome iberidifolia) kept to its original colour; it then varied into lilac and purple and other minor shades."[627] Analogous facts have been recorded with ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin |
