322 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



VULGAR MINDS. 



AFRICAN MARY GOLD. Tagetes erecta. 



" Open afresh your round of starry folds, 

 Ye ardent marigolds !" . . 



Keats. 



These flowers have only their gaiety to re- 

 commend them, since their odour is more of- 

 fensive than agreeable, and may be compared 

 to those persons who depend more on their 

 wardrobe than their conduct for making them- 

 selves pleasing. We therefore present them 

 as emblematical of vulgar minds. 



An attention to the mode of dress of the 

 age we live in, is due to society : but to de- 

 pend entirely on it, is valuing our understand- 

 ing as naught. 



