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APRIL 8. St. Dionysius of Corinth, b. c. in 2d age. 

 St. Aedesius, martyr, in 306. 

 St. Perpetuus, bishop and confessor, 491- 

 St. Walter, abbot, 1099. 

 B.Albert, patriarch of Jerusalem, 121.4. 



Ludi et Victoria Caeseri. — Julian Cal. 



Obs. St. Dionysius, bishop of Coriath, flourished under the 

 Emperor Marcus Aurelius, and was one of the most holy and elo- 

 quent pastors of the church in the second age. The Greeks honour 

 St. Dionysius as a martyr on the twenty ninth of November because 

 he suffered much for the faith, though he seems to have died in peace. 

 The Latins keep his festival on this day and style him only confessor. 



Ground Ivy Glechoma hederacea flowers. 



Primrose Narcisse Narcissus primulinus flowers. 



Large Daffodil Narcissus hicolor flowers. 



Longflowered Daffodil Narcissa tubijlorus flowers. 



Male Orchis Orchis mascula flowers. 



Ground Ivy or Alehoot makes a wholesome tea : it has long been 

 celebrated as a spring febrifuge. In the Floral Directory cited by 

 Hone it is called Flower of St. Dionysius. Its most abundant flower- 

 ing takes place in the middle and end of April, when its blue small 

 flowers are too numerous for the gardener. The Narcissus and 

 Daffodils noticed today are garden plants. Some call the latter the 

 larsre broadleaved lateflowering Daffodillies. The Male Orchis has 

 a purple flower, and is distinguished by the dark spots on its leaves : 

 late in April and early in May it is numerous, and numbers of them 

 flowering together in the orchard have a beautiful effect : they like 

 moist soils, and if cultivated in the garden require watering. In 

 Sussex they are called Ramshorns. 



The young leaves begin now to appear on the Sycamore Trees, on 

 Lilacs, and other early shrubs. 



