FLORAL EMBLEMS. 87 



Reason seems to tell us, that the most de- 

 vout, and strict celibacy cannot be so accepta- 

 ble to the Almighty as the faithful observance 

 of the duties of husband and wife, parent, 

 child, and neighbour. 



CHARITY. 



TURNIP. Rapa. 



" Turnips hide their swelling heads below." 



Gay. 



Peacham pictures the month of November 

 with bunches of parsnips and turnips in his 

 right hand ; and Guillim says, turnips were 

 used in armorial bearings to represent a 

 person of good disposition, who relieved the 

 poor. Hence we have made it the emblem 

 of charity: 



" Oh, charity ! our helpless nature's pride, 



Thou friend to him who knows no friend beside : 



