120 ROBERT S TIDE. 



APRIL 29. St. Robert, ab. of Molesme, a.d.1110. 

 St. Peter, martyr, 1252. 

 St. Hugh, abbot and confessor. 

 St. Fiachna, confessor in Ireland. 



Obs. St. Robert was born in Champagne about the year 1018. 

 He was Abbot of Molesme, and was the founder of the Cistercian 

 Order, one of the severest of the many reformations of St. Bene- 

 dict. They took their name from Cistercium or Citeaux, a woody 

 place five leagues from Dijon, where the monks of St. Robert's new 

 reformation at first resided. 



St. Peter the martyr was bom at Verona in 1205. God preserved 

 him from the danger which attended his birth of being infected with 

 heretical sentiments. He was received in the order of St. Dominic 

 at the age of fifteen, and addressed himself to St. Dominic to be 

 his director. St. Peter was the terror of the new Manchee heretics : 

 they conspired his death, and hired two assassins to murder him on 

 his return from Como to Milan. The ruffians murdered him by in- 

 flicting a wound in the side with a cuttleaxe, on the 6th of April, 

 1252, the saint being forty six years and some days old. St. Peter 

 was canonized the year after his death by Innocent IV. 



Herb Robert Geraniuvi Robertianum flowers. 

 Soft Cranesbill Geranium molle flowers. 

 Sweet Dalibard Dalibarda fragaroides ^oviexs. 



The little field Geranium called Herb Robert, whose deep pink 

 flowers ornament our hedges, and fields, and common borders, in 

 May and June, now comes into first blow, and hence its cognomen. 

 The second species here mentioned called Softleaved Cranesbill is 

 common in our stubble fields and waste places during the same 

 period ; its flowers are paler, and more approach to Lilac. 



The Dalibarda fragurnides is a garden plant, and blows in April 

 and May ; it is of the ranunculaceous tribe, and suits almost any 

 soil, but does not encrease much. 



The roots of Dahlias should now be put into the ground, if the 

 weather be tolerably dry, which is usually the case at this time of 

 year. 



Annual seeds of various kinds for the flower garden should now 

 be sown ; the best time for this purpose being from Benedict Tide 

 to the end of the vernal period : the tender annuals should be raised 

 on dung mould under a glass, and planted out late in May. 



