LEO TIDE. 101 



APRIL 10. St. Bademus, abbot, martyr, a. d. 376. 



B. Mechtildes, virgin and abbess, 1300. 



B. Mechtildesof Spanheim, recluse, in 1154. 



Obs. Bademus was a rich and noble citizen of Bethlapeta, in 

 Persia: he consecrated himself to the service of God, and founded a 

 monastery near that city. In the thirty seventh year of the persecu- 

 tion of King Sapor he was apprehended with seven of his monks. 

 After laying four months in a dungeon Bademus was put to death by 

 Narsan, an unhappy prince who had renounced his faith at the sight 

 of the torments. The body of St. Bademus was secretly interred by 

 the Christians. He suffered on the 10th of April, in the year 376, 

 of King Sapor the sixty seventh. 



Mechtildes and Gertrude were two sisters, cousins of Frederick 

 II. and born at Islebe in Saxony. Mechtildes became a Benedictine 

 nun, and died in a monastery of Diessen. See Bavaria Sancla, 



Tunbridge Violet Viola Tunhrigensis flowers. 



This plant was discovered by the late Mr. T. F. Forster in the 

 neighbourhood of Tunbridge VVells, and is described in his Flora 

 Tuiibrigevsis. Stocks or Stock Gilliflowers as they are called begin 

 now to blow sparingly in our gardens, and thus mix their still more 

 agreeable odour with the sweet scent of the Wallflowers now in full 

 blossom. But it is not till about Holy Cross Tide that Stocks begin 

 to blow plentifully, and they then form a rich ornament to the vernal 

 garden till the setting in of the solstitial season. They flower less 

 plentifully at midsummer, but with care the double sorts may be 

 made to flower all the spring, summer, and autumn. 



The Horse Chesnut trees now expand their lively green leaves, 

 and most trees in mild years are budding. We have known 

 Elms, Sycamores, and other early trees in young leaf by this time ; 

 but of late years the seasons have certainly been more tardy. Tad- 

 poles now are numerous, and young frogs are sometimes already 

 seen. Various insects come forth both in the water and on land. 

 And warm days produce abundance of Butterflies. The Bulbous 

 Crowfoot begins to flower, and contributes with the Dandelion, 

 described tomorrow, to gild the fields with yellow. Daisies are 

 beginning to be very numerous, and Primroses and Violets abundantly 

 in flower begin to cover every bank and brae. 



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