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Updated: July 27, 2025
Very fine roads and lofty, overlooking the whole town, the harbor, and the sea-beautiful views. Residences all along, set in the midst of green lawns with shrubs and generally one or two intensely red outbursts of poinsettia the flaming splotch of blinding red a stunning contrast with the world of surrounding green. The cactus tree candelabrum-like; and one twisted like gray writhing serpents.
He remembered when his own French car had overshadowed Fenton's Ford. There were wreaths to-night in the club windows, and when Sands opened the doors there was a mass of poinsettia against the hall mirror. How warm it looked with all that gold and red! In the basement was the grill. It was a night when one might order something heavy and hot.
Through plumed palms we catch glimpses of the spreading fingers of a deep red poinsettia; there is a pink frilled flower shooting toward the sky, so decorative that it looks exactly like those made of crinkled paper for decorations; this is the well-known oleander.
Very fine roads and lofty, overlooking the whole town, the harbor, and the sea-beautiful views. Residences all along, set in the midst of green lawns with shrubs and generally one or two intensely red outbursts of poinsettia the flaming splotch of blinding red a stunning contrast with the world of surrounding green. The cactus tree candelabrum-like; and one twisted like gray writhing serpents.
Enclosed by low palisades in front of many houses, cannas, hibiscus, poinsettia, or lilies are growing, and rare orchids hang from the eaves, to provide in their strange but lovely blossoms a flower for some woman's hair. Indoors, in coloured pots or stands of often elaborate design, are other flowers, always most carefully tended, for the Burmans love what is beautiful in Nature.
Lovely lanes of palm and banana, brightened by trees of crimson poinsettia, wind upward to the hills, and a cluster of green islets gems the blue waters; the scarlet-stemmed Banka palm offering a glowing contrast to the sweeping emerald of the feathery fronds.
The street they walked up began from the wharf with two-storied respectable buildings the Bank, the Post-Office, the police-magistrate's residence, some dwelling houses, within palings enclosing gardens clumps of bananas, pawpaw apple trees, a few flower beds, bushes of flaunting red poinsettia, and so forth.
To reach it they had to pass a large, well-built stone bungalow, two-storied, unlike all the others and standing in a lovely garden glowing with the vivid hues of the flowers, the flaming red of huge bushes of bougainvillea and poinsettia. Frank, glancing towards it, was about to ask the mahout who lived in it when he started in horror and cried to the man: "Stop! Stop your animal! Look there!"
But the day of tents had long since given place to the day of spacious, square-shouldered bungalows, with pillared verandahs, set in the midst of rambling compounds, where the ferasch and banana flourished in dusty luxuriance, while orange, pomegranate, hybiscus, and poinsettia, to say nothing of marigolds and roses, blazed regally in the blossoming season with scarlet, and crimson gold.
Her collar, of the material of the dress, was so high that it touched her delicate jaw, and it was set off only by a fine silver chain, with a La Valliere of silver and carved Burmese jade. Her red hair, red as a poinsettia, parted and drawn severely back, made a sweep about the fair dead-white skin of her bored sensitive face.
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