242 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



POVERTY. 



Evergreen Clematis. — Clematis cirrhosa. 



" O'errun 

 By vines, and boundless clematis." 



This plant represents in floral language the 

 scale which weighs the sincerity of friendship. 

 When poverty holds the beam, the multitude 

 generally fly like chaff" before the fan of a 

 winnower ; yet we hope there are none so 

 afflicted but they may use the words of 

 Shakspeare, 



" Poverty could never dravv^ them from me." 



