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Title: Flowers and heraldry; or, Floral emblems and heraldic figures, combined to express pure sentiments, kind feelings, and excellent principles ..
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Tyas, Robert, 1811-1879
Subjects: Heraldry Flowers in art
Publisher: London, Houlston & Stoneman (etc., etc.)
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rity of heartthere will be simplicity of character; ifthere be genuine simplicity it must springfrom inward purity. This union of thetwo is well typified by the crest, a sprigof the phlox, in bloom, which is the re-presentative of unanimity. We know not L 146 FLOWERS AND HERALDRY. why it has been thus appropriated; butsince its name signifies a flame, or evena bright flaming fire, and since fire hasthe property of reducing all things totheir prime elements, and thus bringinginto reunion all particles which have anative afl&nity, its operation tends to arrangewhatever it acts upon in positions of thegreatest harmony, and therefore to pro-duce unanimity. Hence it seems that theflower which is named phlox may fitlybe used to denote that harmony andunanimity which is the general result ofa combination of perfect purity and genuinesimplicity, whence the heraldic combina-tion of their floral emblems expresses infloral language this union in the motto,—Purity and simplicity. ?:iate,XlI
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III.THE PILE. The field is Argent, aud on this is laidA Pile of colour vert, whereon displayed Observe a bunch of Currants red and bright,The whole between two Shamrocks proper, slipped,In Natures ever-verdant hues equipped, Contrasted with the scutcheons lustrous white ;These last, emblems of unity we call,Which as the luscious Currant pleases all. Anon. Eoll of Arms, The red currant is a slirub so commonlycultivated, and its fruit is so generally, wemay say universally desired, as to render anylengthened account of it here unnecessary.The latter is very delicious, and is valued byevery one in all the various forms in whichit tempts the palate. We may remark thatthe shrub is peculiarly suited to the climateof England, and that many attempts havebeen made to acclimatize it in much warmertemperatures, but without success. Thisfact has led Dr. Deakin, in his very valuableL 2 148 FLOWERS AND HERALDRY. Florigrapliia Britannica/ to say, thatthe Englishman when far from his nativeland, who

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