80 LENT. 



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MARCH 20. St. Cuthbert, bp. and conf. a.d. 687. 



St. Wulfran, archbishop of Sens, a.d. 720. 



Obs. St. Cuthbert was originally a shepherd, who desiring 

 ardently a devout life, at length took the monastic habit in the Abbey 

 of jNIailroes on the Tweed, at the time when Eata was abbot and 

 St. Boisil was prior. He was afterwards Bishop of Lindisfarne. His 

 extraordinary vision of St. Aidan going to heaven is related by 

 Butler, lib. iii. p. 219. 



St. Wulfran archbishop of Sens became apostolical missionary in 

 Friseland. He died at Fontinelle, whence his reliques were re- 

 moved to Abbeville, of which city he is styled the Patron. 



Dog's Violet Violet Canina flowers. 



On an average of years this Violet will be found to begin to flower 

 today, but it is not till next month that, flowering abundantly and 

 mixing with Primroses, it so beautifully paints the banks and moist 

 places with its pale blue. It is scentless, or nearly so, and for this 

 reason less esteemed than the Sweet Violet. Snowdrops begin now 

 to decline, and the earliest sorts of Crocus lose their brilliancy and 

 fade by degrees. The Yellow Hellebore goes out of flower, and the 

 race of Daffodils succeed. Crown Imperials are now aboveground, 

 and indeed in warm situations and in early seasons we have known 

 them begin to blow. Snails and Slugs begin to be troublesome in 

 gardens, early Butterflies appear in warm sunny days, and Bees are 

 constantly abroad. 



Lungwort is now in full flower, and from the Feast of the Annun- 

 ciation now approaching, at which time it is in fullest flower, it has 

 been called Our Lady's Milk Wort, Jerusalem Sage, or Cowslip of 

 Jerusalem. 



Frogs are still beard croaking from the pool, particularly before 

 rain. Frogspawn is now found in ponds and ditches in the form of 

 jelly or of globules of jelly mixed together, and is destined soon to 

 become Tadpoles. 



