FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
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SCULPTURE. 
Hoy a.— Hoya carnosa. 
1 hen sculpture and her sister arts revive. 
Stones leap’d to form and rocks began to live.” 
Pope. 
The artists who give in substance what the 
poets give in idea must not want a symbol to 
their ensign. And as we have not the power 
to convoke a general meeting of these creative 
artificers, to ascertain which of the undis¬ 
posed of flowers they would prefer, we assume 
the privilege of registering their floral em¬ 
blem, in our little colleg’e of heraldic flowers, 
without either their assent, or the assistance 
of the pursuivant or garter king of arms. 
We have gathered this emblematical flower 
of sculpture in Asia, it being the quarter of 
the globe where the arts first originated. And 
