FLORAL EMBLEMS. 303 



TIME. 



WHITE POPLAR. Populus canescens. 



" And poplar, that with silver lines its leaf." 



Cowper. 



This rapid growing tree stands as the sym- 

 bol of Time in floral language. 



" Come what come may, 



Time and the hour runs through the roughest day." 



Shakspeare. 



