FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
77 
BENEFICENCE. 
Potatoe.— Solarium tuberosum. 
This root, which forms alike the poor man’s 
bread and the rich man’s luxury, is properly 
made the representative of beneficence. It is 
the palladium against famine, forming flour 
without a mill, and bread without an oven. 
It was first procured when 
“ Raleigh, with hopes of new discov’ries fir’d, 
And all the depth of human wit inspir’d. 
Mov’d o’er the western world in search of fame, 
Adding fresh glory to Eliza’s name.” 
