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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
PAINTING. 
Auricula .—Primula Auricula . 
- “ Auricula, enrich’d 
With shining meal o’er all their velvet leaves.” 
Thompson. 
As all the most beautiful flowers that were 
known to the ancients, had been placed in 
the hieroglyphical language of plants, we had 
some difficulty in making a selection worthy 
of representing the delightful art of painting, 
for such it must ever be regarded. 
“ Whether their hand strike out some free design. 
Where life awakes, and dawns at every line. 
Or blend in beauteous tints the colour’d mass. 
And from the canvass call the mimic face.” 
Pope. 
We were unwilling to place any but a 
European flower on the limner’s escutcheon, 
and have therefore gathered “ The queen of 
the snowy Alps,” for their emblem; for since 
