Crossword-Solution: POINSETTIAS 11 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

There’s no entrance to it that way, but it’s worth seeing, even from the outside.” “Yes, and I might get a squint at my patient,” laughed the doctor, “for he prefers to lie on an ottoman right at the end of the conservatory amid all those blood-red poinsettias; it would give me the creeps.

Poinsettias and oleanders were blazing in coverts, and there was a paradise of tinted water-lilies in the slacker reaches.

Though they are by no means to be seen in perfection, there are here many things that I love,--bananas, poinsettias, papayas, tree-ferns, dendrobiums, dracenas, the scarlet passion-flower, the spurious banyan, date, sago, and traveler's palms, and numberless other trees and shrubs, children of the burning sun of the tropics, carefully watered and tended, but exotics after all.

They are children in the matter of tales.’ ‘But none are so terrible as the little ones, if a man misplace a word, or in a second telling vary events by so much as one small devil.’ ‘Ay, I also have told tales to the little ones, but do thou this--’ His old eyes fell on the gaudy paintings of the wall, the blue and red dome, and the flames of the poinsettias beyond.

The bamboos, and the custard-apples, the poinsettias, and the mango-trees in the garden stood still while the warm water lashed through them, and the frogs began to sing among the aloe hedges.