pointsettia

Updated: June 10, 2025

I would far rather draw and paint flowers; but we never have any flowers now except those waxen-looking heaths and that flaming pointsettia over there. 'What did you call it, Madge? said Mr. Tom. 'I called it pointsettia, she said, with dignity. 'Gamekeeper's Greek, I should say, he remarked, with his hands in his pockets. 'A cross between a pointer and a setter.

William Black - The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols