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TIME. 
WHITE POPLAR. 
Tue white poplar is one of the most valuable 
of our indigenous trees, and grows to the height 
of more than ninety feet, towering its superb 
head upon a straight silvered trunk. The 
ancients consecrated it to time, because the 
leaves are in continual agitation; and being of 
a blackish green on the upper side, with a thick 
white cotton on the other, they were supposed 
to indicate the alternation of day and night. 
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TIMIDITY. 
MARVEL OF PERU. 
Tuts plant is called mirabilis, and with some 
degree of reason, for it is a most admirable 
flower it expands its richly-dyed corollas at 
night, whence it has been named by the French, 
belle-de-nuit. 
It is universally considered to be the emblem 
of timidity from its shunning the brilliant light 
of day, and only venturing to display its charms 
in the cool of the evening. 
The mimosa, or sensitive plant, has been 
assigned as the symbol of chastity and prudery, 




















