HILARY TIDE. 19 



JAN. 19. St. Wulstan, bishop ofWorcester, conf. 

 A.D, 1095. 

 St. Henry, archbishop of Upsal, martyr. 

 SS. Maris, Martha, and others, mm. a.d. 270. 

 St. Canutus, m. King of Denmark, a.d. 1086. 



Obs. St. Wulstan was a native of Icentum, in Warwickshire. 

 He was prior of Worcester first, and afterwards bishop in 1062. 



St. Canutus or Knut was fourth King of Denmark ; his uncle 

 was Canutus King of England, after whom the bird called the 

 Knot Trinsa Canutus takes its name. 



White Archangel Lamium alburn flowers. 



The White Archangel much resembles our common Dead Nettle, 

 only that the flower is white, instead of red ; it is, however, less 

 abundant than the Dead Nettle, and is chiefly found in waste 

 places, and in the borders of gardens not well weeded ; but it seldom 

 encreases so as to become very troublesome. It flowers plentifully 

 all the early part of the year, like others of this genus. The flowers 

 of most species of Lamium, like those of JMelissa, are great favorites 

 with the bees, and should be rather encouraged to grow where 

 hives are kept. We have no doubt but that the taste as well as the 

 properties of honey vary in some measure according to the sort of 

 flowers from which the bees have mostly gathered it. 



The sound of Bees busy at their work adds in no small degree to 

 the combined sources of delight which we derive from being in a 

 garden of flowers in spring. Virgil aptly describes the pleasure of 

 this concurrence of vernal pleasure in his first Eclog. 

 Hinc tibi, quae semper vicino ab limite sepes 

 Hyblaeis apibus florem depasta salicti, 

 Sffipe levi somnum suadebil inire susurro. 



Virg. Eclog, i. 



