Nice little boxes they have at the ten-cent stores, all covered with poinsettia flowers, to put presents in.
Wonder when poinsettia began to be used as a Christmas decoration and why?
There was a great clump of flaming poinsettia at the Payson gate.
Patty's gown was a long, sweeping robe of poinsettia red velvet.
She wore a girdle of red velvet poinsettia blossoms and a wreath of small ones encircled her head.
Camellias and azaleas require a cooler temperature than most plants, and thePoinsettia a higher temperature.
Her voice had risen, her fingers had closed tremblingly on the sprig of poinsettia she had fastened in her breast.
Old Premoo was sweeping up the withered leaves and flowers from the poinsettia and oleander hedge, when first one and then another high dogcart drove past him.
A Santa Claus or a Christmas tree or a poinsettia would look pretty on the smaller sized boxes.
We'll stow away the poinsettia idea for home presents then," said Margaret.
Poinsettia has been steadily increasing in popularity, and can be surrounded by ferns that will live on indefinitely.
Several small specimens found planted at the base of a Christmas poinsettia were afterwards set out in small pots, and grew with surprising rapidity.
Bangs also discovered some masses of poinsettia and chrysanthemums that, as he said, "looked like her.
Jepson moved ponderously away to do so, while Rodney, opening his big box in the hall, drew out the poinsettia and chrysanthemums and proceeded to arrange them in a gorgeous armful.
It is used with pineapple and cherries in the preparation of poinsettia salad, which is illustrated in Fig.
While a bright red is extremely lovely, a blackpoinsettia is equally effective.
In her bodice was a single red poinsettia blossom.
Dear," he said as Leonie stared at the poinsettia bush, "I am on the track at last, and in a very little time shall know exactly what happened to you all those years ago.
Leonie turned and looked at him blankly, and as he continued speaking, slowly, and as though against her will, turned her eyes back to the poinsettia bush.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poinsettia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
