Crossword-Solution: ARALIAS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Yews from many different countries, junipers of various kinds, pines, firs, spruces, cypresses of countless varieties, many thuyas, beside euonymus, holly, datura, India rubber, aralias, the beautiful nandina domestica, a most lovely foliage massed in the corners of the west side of the Aisle of the Rising Sun.

The natives collect the leaves of many Aralias as fodder for cattle, for which purpose they are of the greatest service in a country where grass for pasture is so scarce; this is the more remarkable, since they belong to the natural family of ivy, which is usually poisonous; the use of this food, however, gives a peculiar taste to the butter.

The modesty of the violet is nowhere when compared with the _aspidistra_! =Aralias are good room plants=, for they have a bold and handsome form, and glossy, bright green foliage, very like that of a fig.

Where the plant is valuable, it is best to be sure of new roots before throwing away the old, but, as a rule, _aralias_ have so many joints that they may easily be induced to strike by just pressing the stem firmly into the soil, then putting the pot in some dark place, and keeping the soil rather dry, though the foliage must be kept moist.

Both these series contain numerous plant remains, evergreen oaks, magnolias, aralias, &c., and seams of lignite (coal), which is burnt; but in neither occur the marine beds of the United States.