She lifted a bowl of Christmas roses across the table.

Even the brave old chrysanthemums and Christmas roses had passed away before the frost.

I remember years ago, that we had Christmas roses:

Her first book of stories was entitled Weihnachtsrosen (Christmas roses).

Crocus, snowdrops, winter aconites and a few late Christmas roses have displayed their colorful petals.

In bloom: Christmas roses.

December blooms include berries on holly, skimmia, pine cones on conifers and Christmas roses.

I'm also partial to the hellebores, also called Lenten and Christmas roses, with their sturdy, long-lasting, segmented leaves.

I think flowers in her hair would be wrong, but a small posy of Christmas roses from Pulbrook & Gould would look pretty.'

I wanted Christmas roses immediately, despite the fact that we seldom had snow in my part of Texas and that if we did it generally melted by noon.

It opened a new world to me, with its startling revelations about the existence of such plants as hellebores or Christmas roses, advertised as "blooming in the snow."

Not quite a snub, but almost, she reflected while they discussed Christmas roses and chrysanthemums; she must take care not to let her tongue run away with her.

Susan Jellinek, a horticulturist with Thompson & Morgan, said her job was to cheer gardeners along when their hellebores, or Christmas roses, haven't germinated after three months.

When pressing flowers with fairly hard centres, such as Christmas roses, it is easier to remove the middles completely and either discard or press them separately and replace them later.

In the centre of the table was a bower of holly entwined with Christmas roses, and the candlesticks were garlanded with festive trinkets which sparkled in the firelight.

Robert, on her right, cleared his throat and thought for a moment before, looking from the silver basket of white flowers in the middle of the table, he said: "Your Christmas roses are wonderful.

The luncheon table was laid as it had been for 50 Christmases, with a pyramid of polished John Standish apples from Somerset in the middle, flanked by Christmas roses and trails of ivy.

Mr. Patel stood on the doorstep with a large basket filled with tastefully arranged fruit, a large box of chocolates, and a charming floral arrangement of Christmas roses, miniature daffodils, hyacinths and jasmine.

Among the flowering plants that respond well to drying in silica gel are birds of paradise (Strelitzia reginae), Christmas roses (Helleborus niger), daffodils and tulips, dahlias, dogwood, peonies, Queen Anne's lace and rhododendron.

And of course, when dear Bunch spilt the water from the Christmas roses on to the lamp wire--I realised at once that only Miss Blacklock herself could have fused the lights because only she was near that table." "

In a rough earthenware jug on the table stood a large bunch of Christmas roses, and to the educated nostril the slight scent of perfumes that hovered in the air was doubly pleasing after the fetid air of the narrow streets.

It was a comfortable room,though the carpet was faded and the furniture very plain, for a good picture or two hung on the walls, books filled the recesses, chrysanthemums and Christmas roses bloomed in the windows, and a pleasant atmosphere of home peace pervaded it.

She dealt with his post, made her neat lists and coped with the answering of most of his letters, and in between whiles kept the vases filled with catkins, Christmas roses and chrysanthemums, flourishing in the greenhouse once more now that old Ned was looking after them.

You don't need to have a dull garden in winter: a few well-chosen evergreens will ensure bright and cheerful splashes, as will a few winter-flowering bulbs and plants like Christmas roses (Helleborus niger ) and Algerian irisis (Iris unguicularis, also sold as I sylosa ).

Neatly-dressed, chubby-faced children, now on their way to the school, dropped quaint little curtseys, or tugged at curly locks as Loveday passed; every cottage looked the picture of cleanliness and trimness, and, although so late in the year, the gardens were full of late flowering chrysanthemums and early flowering Christmas roses.

Black hellebore, merely at the touch, provokes diarrhea.

"Black hellebore," she said, and shuddered.

"Black hellebore" was used by the ancients in paralysis, gout and other diseases, more particularly in insanity.

In antiquity the most famous place for the black hellebore was the Phokian city of Antikyra in Greece.

Deceptions 'Barberry leaves, three handfuls in a decoction, steeped overnight, poured over half a handful of black hellebore.'

Among them were rue, Italian catnip, savory, sage, soapwort, cyperus, white and black hellebore, and pennyroyal.

Helleborus niger, commonly called Christmas rose or black hellebore, is an evergreen perennial flowering plant in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae.

The city was famous for its black hellebore (helleborus niger), and for a drug elaborated from the base of white hellebore (veratrum album).

Various treatments were tried and failed; finally they were cured with black hellebore, given as snuff, which relieved the dyspepsia and restored their night vision within a few days.

Research in the 1970s, however, showed that the roots of H. niger do not contain the cardiotoxic compounds helleborin, hellebrin, and helleborein that are responsible for the lethal reputation of "black hellebore".

Beside these, the following members of the other flore do grow in this region: butcher's broom, the lily of Carniola, black hellebore, honeysuckle, hacquetia, cyclamen, euphorbia, milkwort, helleborine, hart's tongue fern, cranesbill redbrown and many others.

"Black hellebore" is also toxic, causing tinnitus, vertigo, stupor, thirst, a feeling of suffocation, swelling of the tongue and throat, emesis and catharsis, bradycardia (slowing of the pulse), and finally collapse and death from cardiac arrest.

'There are,' he replied, 'certain plants which cut, distilled and treated, can turn a man's mind and raise phantasms in his soul; the deadly nightshade, the purple foxglove, above all the flowers of Hecate, Queen of the Night, the black hellebore.

In the early days of medicine, two kinds of hellebore were recognized: black hellebore, which included various species of Helleborus, and white hellebore (now known as Veratrum album ("false hellebore"), which belongs to a different plant family, the Melanthiaceae).

His thesis very thoroughly examined the historical literature and sought to differentiate between the ancient use of Helleborus niger, or black hellebore and the medicinal uses of the "white hellebore", botanically Veratrum album, both of which are poisonous plants.

In the section that describes "The Garden of Pleasant Flowers," Parkinson noted three sorts of black hellebore or "beares foote," writing that the "time of this flowering is most rare, that is, in the deepe of Winter about Christmas, when no other can be seene upon the ground."

It could serve as a love token, a more or less elegant variation on a great painter of the day, or a stylish receptacle for - here I quote from a great student of the apothecary jar throughout the ages - "a purgative preparation made from colocynth pulp, agaric, scammony, aloes, black hellebore and other ingredients."

"How about some essence of Helleborus Niger?"