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APRIL 25. St. Mark, evangelist. 

 St. Macull of Ireland, 5th cent. 

 St. Anianus, bishop of Alexandria. 

 St. Phaebadius, b. conf. 392. 

 St. Ivia, bishop, 7th cent. 

 St. Kebius, bishop, 4th cent. 



Obs. St. Mark was of Jewish extraction : the style of his gospel, 

 abounding with Hebraisms, shews that he was by birth a Jew. He 

 was a disciple of St. Peter, and was sent by him from Rome to 

 found other churches. After employing many years in preaching 

 the gospel, he was at last seized by the Pagans, and about three 

 years after the death of Saints Peter and Paul, St. Mark was put to 

 death, after innumerable sufferings, on the 2oth of April. The 

 Christians gathered up the remains of his body, and buried them at 

 Bucoles, where they afterwards usually assembled for prayer. 



Under today we find in some Calendars discussions respecting the 

 true time of Easter in 1823. Hone has cited several of these, to 

 which we refer the reader. 



St. Mark's Day is prescribed as a day of abstinence by the Church. 

 Numerous ceremonies still practised on this day may be found de- 

 scribed in Brand, and in the Perennial Calendar. 



Clarimond Tulip Tulipa praecox flowers. 



We have before alluded to the flowering of this plant, it is now in 

 full blow, and large beds of it may be seen in the nursery grounds 

 near London, Haerlem, and other places where flowers are culti- 

 vated. Some botanists make it a variety of the Standard Tulip 

 Tulip t Gesneriana, but we are convinced that, whatever that inde- 

 finable distinction in the varieties of living creatures may be which is 

 called species, this plant has as much title to it, when considered 

 with reference to the Common Tulip, as the Sweet Tulip or any other 

 has. Its time of flowering too is different : the Common Tulip only 

 begins to flower now, and that sparingly, while the Clarimond is in 

 full blow, and often accompanies the Sweet Tulip. 



Apple Trees are now coming into blossom, and the earlier sorts, 

 as well as Pears, are sometimes in full bloom. 



The word OpviSos-yviaJia is marked against today in the Epheraeris 

 of Nature, as indicating the full song of the birds. The Chorus of 

 the Grove beginning now to be full. 



