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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 draw them from me.” 
