100 PASQUE? 



APRIL 9. St. Mauy of Egypt, penitent in a. d. 421. 

 St. Zosinius, a holy priest, 

 SS. The Massylitan martyrs. 

 St. Eupsychius, martyr. 

 SS, Captivis in Persia, martyrs. 

 St. Waltriide, widow. 

 St. Gaucher, abbot in Limourin. 

 St. Dotto, abbot. 



Cerealia, Ludi Circenses. — Julian Cal. 



Obs. St. Mary of Egypt left her father and mother vvlien she was 

 twelve years of age. She went without their consent to Alexandria, 

 where she lived an immoral life till the twenty ninth year of her age. 

 She is said to have been miraculously converted at Jerusalem, and 

 afterwards went beyond the Jordan, where she spent the remainder 

 of her life in solitude and prayer. Zosimus, a religious man, having 

 gone to the banks of the Jordan for the purpose of being edified by 

 St. JMary's holy conversation, found her corpse stretched on the 

 ground, with an inscription declaring her name. Zosimus being mi- 

 raculously assisted by a lion dug a grave and buried her. Papebroke 

 places her conversion in 383, and her death in 421. She is figured 

 in her picture on her knees before a crucifix, with her long hair 

 flowing over her back. 



Honesty Moonwort Lunaria annua Aoviers. 



The tetradynameous plant called Irish Honesty or Moonwort now 

 flowers in our gardens, and continues through April. It makes a 

 splendid display of purple blooms, and is a great ornament when iu 

 sufficient quantity and planted at regular distances. We had a 

 beautiful display of this plant in our garden in 1826. It is a biennial, 

 and should be planted out in autumn. 



The Red Polyanthuses are noticed today in the "Floral Direc- 

 tory" and called Flowers of St. Mary the Penitent, why we cannot 

 tell, except that reddish purple has whimsically been called a peni- 

 tential colour. 



This season of the year becomes very interesting from the nidifi- 

 cation of birds. A vulgar error prevails that small birds are destruc' 

 tire in gardens, but ice have ascertained by accurate observation, and 

 it has been confirmed by the ejperience of others, that every sort of 

 bird does more good than harm by the innumerable insects they 

 destroy, and they ought not therefore to be molested in fiouer aiict 

 fruit gardens. 



