Word: zinnia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greeted pressmen with news of seven miracles of hybridization in plants. He reported a new camassia, blue tinted, excelling all others in beauty and ability to multiply; a rainbowteosinte, a giant corn that grows eight feet tall and produces 8 to 14 ears a stalk; a giant cactus-flowering zinnia, developed from the familiar plant; a hybrid of the torch lily, the tritoma, which will bloom profusely in cold climates; an even more magnificent Shasta daisy than blooms at present; a new strain of giant asters of breath-taking fluffiness; and eight new gladioli...
Students who travel to Yale on Saturday adorned with a chrysanthemum, an aster, a cosmos, a zinnia, a hollyhock, a gladiolus, or a dahlia, will be in danger of having the flowers seized and incurring a heavy fine and imprisonment, unless they are armed with a special permit that certifies to the health of the flowers...