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FEB. 16. St. Juliana, virgin, martyr about A. D. 309. 



St. Onesimus, disciple of St. Paul. 



SS. Elias, Jeremy, Isaias, Samuel, Daniel, and 

 others. 



St. Gregory X. pope and confessor. 



St. Tanco, bish. martyr, of Scotland. 



06s. St. Juliana, after many sufferings, was martyred at Nico- 

 inedia in the time of Galerius Maximianus. St. Gregory relates 

 that her bones were translated to Rome. Part, however, of them 

 are said to be now at Brussels, in the church of Our Lady of Sablon. 

 This saint is much honoured in the Low Countries. 



St. Onesimus was a Phrygian slave, who fled from his master to 

 Rome, where he was converted by St. Paul. 



Lilac Primrose Primula verna -plena liliacea flow. 



We have noticed this plant to blow about this time, and to con- 

 tinue through March, April, and part of May. It is a pale lilac 

 permanent variety of the common Primrose ; but neither of them 

 are yet numerous. Primroses will grow in almost any soil ; they 

 should be divided and transplanted about Michaelmas, if we wish 

 to encrease them. 



The entrance of the sun today into the sign Pisces in the time of 

 Augustus Caesar was described by the Roman writers as a time of 

 bad weather, particularly unequal gales of wind and showers. Thus 

 Ovid in his Fasti warns the mariner to beware of storms : 

 Orta dies fuerat : tu desine credere ventis : 



Perdidit illius temporis aura fidem. 

 Flamina non constant ; et sex reserata diebus 

 Carceris Aeolii janua lata patet. 



Then follows an attempted explanation of the sign Pisces, for 

 particulars concerning which, as well as the other constellations, 

 the modern reader would probably prefer consulting La Lande's 

 Origine des Constellations. 



Bees in mild seasons begin now to be seen abroad. 



