FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
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FOOLISHNESS, OR SIMPLICITY. 
Pomegranate.— Punica. 
“ And rich pomegranate, wrapt in dulcet pulp 
Their racy seeds.” 
Mason. 
This emblem is probably made in allusion 
to Proserpine’s having eaten the seeds of the 
pomegranate in the Elysian fields, which the 
poets tell us prevented her return to earth. 
We have somewhere seen blindness pictured 
under the emblem of a young woman direct¬ 
ing a mole with one hand, and holding a 
pomegranate flower in the other, as the sym¬ 
bol of foolishness. 
