{"id":4778,"date":"2014-12-19T02:12:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T06:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/yorkspast\/?p=4778"},"modified":"2014-12-19T02:12:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T06:12:49","slug":"merry-christmas-say-it-with-poinsettias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorkspast\/merry-christmas-say-it-with-poinsettias\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas; say it with Poinsettias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/12\/Poinsettias2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4777\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/12\/Poinsettias2014.jpg\" alt=\"Poinsettias2014\" width=\"518\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorkspast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/12\/Poinsettias2014.jpg 518w, https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorkspast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/12\/Poinsettias2014-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/12\/GazetteDaily1934.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4767\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/12\/GazetteDaily1934.jpg\" alt=\"GazetteDaily1934\" width=\"308\" height=\"574\" \/><\/a><strong>Eighty years ago, an article appeared in <em>The Gazette and Daily<\/em>; \u201cPoinsettia Now Christmas Flower.\u201d<\/strong> The article was reporting on a bulletin published in Washington, D.C. by the National Geographic Society.<\/p>\n<p>The article notes, \u201cBecause its red and green are Christmas colors, and because it generally blossoms around Christmastime, the poinsettia has come to be accepted as America\u2019s Christmas flower.\u201d The article points out, the poinsettia is a relatively recently discovery. <em>The Gazette and Daily<\/em> quoted from the National Geographic Society bulletin:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Discovered in Mexico<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>As a recognized flower, the poinsettia has a relatively brief history. It first came to the attention of the scientific world in <strong>1828<\/strong>, when <strong>Joel Robert Poinsett<\/strong>, American minister to Mexico from 1825-29, noticed the striking beauty of its scarlet and green head, and the fact that it usually came into blossom about Christmastime.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Poinsett, who was a botanist as well as a diplomat, brought several specimens back with him to this country, and fellow scientists soon learned that the flower would thrive in sub-tropical parts of the United States. Poinsett, a South Carolinian, collected many natural history specimens during his travels and work in foreign countries, presenting most of them to scientific societies in the United States, and enriching the flora of his own colorful South Carolina. Today, however, <strong>he is remembered chiefly for this Christmas flower, which bears his name.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/12\/PoinsettiasYork.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4766\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/12\/PoinsettiasYork.jpg\" alt=\"PoinsettiasYork\" width=\"518\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorkspast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/12\/PoinsettiasYork.jpg 518w, https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorkspast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/12\/PoinsettiasYork-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Reading the HEADLINES: An Index to ALL YorksPast posts\" href=\"\/yorkspast\/reading-the-headlines-index\/\">Reading the HEADLINES; A Quick Index to ALL YorksPast Posts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighty years ago, an article appeared in The Gazette and Daily; \u201cPoinsettia Now Christmas Flower.\u201d The article was reporting on a bulletin published in Washington, D.C. by the National Geographic Society. 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