FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
45 
JULY. 
fC When now no more th’ alternate twins are fir’d. 
And cancer reddens with the solar blaze ; 
Short is the doubtful empire of the night.” 
Thompson. 
This cherry-cheeked month we picture in 
our emblems by a garland of purple thyme, 
enclosing- a bunch of red cherries. 
“ July I would have drawn,” says Peacham, 
“ in a jacket of light yellow, eating cherries, 
with his face and bosom sun-burnt, on his 
head a wreath of centaurie and wild thyme, a 
sithe on his shoulder, and a bottle at his girdle 
carrying the sign Leo. This month was call¬ 
ed July in honour of Julius Caesar, the dicta¬ 
tor, being before called Quintilis , or the fifth 
month ; for the Romans began with March.” 
