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Symbols of Christmas: Poinsettias
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Charlene Hoeflich/photo - This tree created from over 100 poinsettia plants is featured in the sanctuary of Trinity Congregational Church in Pomeroy for the Christmas season. Here John Musser on the ladder, supported by Ken Harris, adjusts a string of lights.
The red leafed plants which grew in fields in Mexico were used to decorate church altars and it was there in 1824 while attending a worship service that American Ambassador Joe Poinsett first saw them displayed. He was so impressed with their beauty that he gathered up seeds to bring back to America.
People here so loved the bright red color of the flowers they grew from those seeds that they named the plant after Poinsett.
Today several greenhouses in Meigs County grow thousands of poinsettia plants which they market locally and across the state.
While many churches feature poinsettias on altar railings, Trinity Congregational Church in Pomeroy uses the beautiful live plants to create an impressive 14 foot poinsettia tree.
About 100 plants are arranged on shelves attached to an easel-like wood and chicken wire form in the shape of a tree designed by Pat Holter and built by Donnie Mayer many years ago.
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