FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
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AUGUST. 
“ Before the ripen’d field the reapers stand. 
In fair array.” 
Thompson. 
This month, which was anciently called Sex- 
tilis, from being' the sixth from March, was 
named August by the senate of Rome, in ho¬ 
nour of Augustus Caesar, who in this month 
was created consul, and triumphed thrice in 
Rome. It was in this month also that he sub¬ 
jugated Egypt to the Roman empire, and 
terminated the civil wars which had so much 
convulsed these warlike people. 
As a symbol of this month we weave a 
wreath of wheat, barley, and oats, encircling 
a branch of purple plums. 
August is portrayed by Peacham in “form 
