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Show Mexican fire r plant is I our poinsettia More than a hundred years I. ago our Ambassador to Mexi- ( co Joel Roberts Poinsett, took f V a fancy to a brilliant tropical T plant, known as the Mexican I Fire Plant. L- Returning to his home in p South Carolina, he started I growing the plant from cut- I ting3 he brought from Mexico. ? Soon the scarlet-leafed plant ' came to the attention of Amer- J ican botanists, and under the t name "poinsettia," it was des- 8 tined to become symbolic of S ;, Christmas. t In tropic climates, poinset- y. tia is grown in varieties of f, white, pink and yellow, but by r far themost popular is the bright red ' .jj |