Word: poinsettias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Show (TIME, March 30): There are several of these plants on this island and I am enclosing herewith a cutting from one of them growing in our garden. This particular shrub has been blooming almost continuously for the past six years. Botanically, the "Crown of Thorns" belongs to the Poinsettia family. There are at least two legends about this plant: 1 ) The wreath referred to in Matthew 27:29, was platted with cuttings from it: 2) it will not bloom if tended by wicked persons. From its structure, I can readily believe the first to have been true...