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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
his right hand, with a fair grace, the sign 
Pisces. 
Numa Pompilius gave February its name 
a Febribus , from Agues, to which this season 
is much subject; or from Februa , which were 
sacrifices offered for the purgation of the souls 
of the dead ; for Februs was an old verb, and 
signified to purge. 
MARCH. 
“ Be patient, swains; these cruel seeming winds 
Blow not in vain.” 
Thompson . 
An old distich says, 
“ March winds and April showers. 
Bring forth May flowers.” 
The hieroglyphics by which we would dis¬ 
tinguish this month are a bird’s nest encircled 
in a garland of cimygdulus, the almond, 
“ That blooms on a leafless bough.” 
