Christmas Roses.
One of the most beautiful flowers in bloom in English gardens in winter is the white Christmas rose or Black Hellebores, to give it its correct name. Christmas roses have no connection with ordinary roses. They belong botanically to the buttercup group. They abound in the woods of Greece, and were brought to England from Eastern Europe in Elizabethan days. Christmas roses are poisonous, and it it said that Shakespeare describes symptoms produced by swallowing a concoction of these plants in “ Romeo and Juliet,” where the Friar tells Juliet t what to expect w hen she drinks the contents of his phial.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18946, 17 December 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)
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104Christmas Roses. Star (Christchurch), Issue 18946, 17 December 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)
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