86 LENT. 



MARCH 26, St. Ludger, apostle of Saxony, 

 A.-D. 809. 

 St. Braulio, bishop of Saragossa, confessor. 646. 



Obs. St. Ludger was son of a nobleman in Frieseland, and was 

 born in 743. He was early entrusted to the care of St. Gregory of 

 Utrecht : he afterwards resided at a school at York, and finally be- 

 came Bishop of Munster. 



St. Braulio was the assistant of St. Isidore of Seville in settling the 

 affairs of the church in Spain. He wrote a famous hymn in iambic 

 verse in honor of St. Emilian, which has been transmitted to our 

 days. 



' Scopolis Henbane Hyocyamus Scopolia flowers. 



This plant, which has of late been introduced into our garder-, 

 flowers in the end of March and in April. We have seen it in 

 flower on this day growing on the edge of a gravel walk, in the 

 botanic garden of the late T, F. Forster, esq. at Clapton in 

 IMiddlesex. In Sussex it flowers a week later, but season and so'' 

 make some difference in the time. Its medical virtues are not con- 

 sidered so powerful as those of common Henbane. It has errone- 

 ously been put down in Hortus Keuensis as flowering in May. It is 

 a native of Carniola, and was introduced into England in 1780. 

 The Dog's Tooth Erythronium Dens Canis now flowers, but we sh?' 

 describe it when in full flower. 



The blossoms of the Peach and Nectarine trees are now daily 

 expanding themselves, and in most seasons those trees that are 

 against walls are already in full bloom. The early sorts of Plum, 

 too, are in beautiful blossom, as are Willows in the hedges ; the 

 Croci are beginning to decline, and the Snowdrops and Hellebores 

 often decayed. Daffodils of various sorts are plentiful. The 

 weather is changing for the better ; the rough and shifting gales of 

 March, with their accompanying showers of snow or hail, are changed 

 for more genial breezes as the true spring comes on ; and, as the 

 weather gets warmer early in next month, we may expect a richer 

 display of blossoms on the trees, and a more plentiful show of flowers 

 on our bulbous and hardy herbaceous plants. 



