She stood on the step until she heard voices at the gate, and Mary Frances came up the walk between the marigolds and zinnias and stood in the square of light from the door.
"Stories of the Foot-hills"
Margaret Collier Graham
I said to one of the gardeners that I thought it a pity, on this account, that some of the plants, especially the zinnias and marigolds, were not left to go to seed.
"Birds in the Bush"
Bradford Torrey
Only a few red verbenas and zinnias gleam forth from the dull green monotony.
"'O Thou, My Austria!'"
Ossip Schubin