LEAFLET NUMBERS. THE numerical emblems are simply distinguished by the leaflets as far as eleven. From eleven to twenty they are denoted by berries added to leaf ten, as in the examples 12 and 14. Twenty to a hundred is represented by joining a compound leaf to the tenth, as in the example 20, which expresses two tens, and the odd number is formed by the addition of berries, as in the representation of 35, where three tens and five berries denote the number, and 71 is pictured in the same manner. A hundred is represented on the same principal by ten tens, and which may be increased by a third leaflet and a branch of berries as far as 999, as the example 508. A thousand is distinguished by a frond of fern or brake, to which a leaflet may be added to increase the number of thousands, in the same manner as the hundreds. Thus any given number may be explained, or the date of the year formed by foliage, as is shewn in the emblematical British Ewer, on which is pictured the date of his majesty's birth. Thus plate may be embossed or engraved, and china painted or enamelled, so as to commemorate any event by ornamental emblems. In representing sums of money, the pounds are to be expressed by round leaflets, the shillings by oval, and the pence by long pointed leaves. EMBLEMATICAL LEAVES FOR EACH DAY OF THE WEEK. The emblems of days are portrayed on a single leaf, that they may be more readily distinguished from the numerical leaflets, and the monthly symbolical garlands. The idea of representing the days, is from the creation, as described by Moses, who instructs us "In the beginning how the heaven and earth Milton. MONDAY. The emblematical leaf of this day, is that of the lotus or water lily, Nymphæa, equally divided by light and darkness. The lotus leaf |