122 HOLY CROSS TIDE. 



MAY 1. St. PniLir and St, James, apostles, 

 A.D. 62. 

 St. Asaph, bishop of Llanebury, 590. 

 St. Marculfus, abbot, 558. 

 St. Sigismund, king of Burgundy, m. 6th cent. 

 St. Andeolus, martyr. 

 St. Brieuc, bishop and confessor. 

 St. Amator, bishop and confessor. 

 SS. Acius and Acheolus, martyrs. 



Laribus. — Julian Cal. 



Obs. St. Philip was of Bethsaida in Galilee, a married man, and 

 had several daughters when he was called by our Saviour to follow 

 him. After the ascension of our Lord the gospel was preached 

 by St. Philip in Phrygia. He lived to a very advanced age, and 

 ■was buried at Hierapolis in Phrygia. An arm of St. Philip was 

 brought from Constantinople to Florence in 1204, whereof we have 

 an authentic history in the BoUandist. 



St. James the Less was an apostle and was surnamed the Just, 

 author of the celebrated Epistle in the New Testament. He was' 

 martyred in a tumult in the Temple in the year 62. 



May Day has been time immemorial a festive holiday in the 

 country. May Poles, May Fairs, and May Games, are as old as 

 any English sports we have on record. May Poles may still be 

 seen in some of our villages decorated today with garlands for 

 young people to dance round. See Brand's Pop. Antiq., Spectator 

 alibi, and Perennial Calendar, May 1. The antients celebrated 

 the Lares or Household Gods today. See Lares and Penates in 

 Latin Diclioriary by Littleton. 



Standard Tulip Tulipa Gesneri flowers. 

 Red Campion Lycfmis dioica rubra flowers. 

 Female Orchis Orchis morio flowers. 



The Standard Tulip is tlip general favourite of all this tribe, and the well 

 known Tulipomania described in Becl^niann's Inventions and in Perennial 

 Calendar today prove liow great a price was set on the choicest varieties of this 

 plant. Some varieties seem to blow rather sooner than others, as those striped 

 of chocolate brown and yellow called Golden Eagles; the different varieties of 

 red and white mixtures generally come into blow somewhat later. The mix- 

 tures of red and yellow are called Fool's Coats ; those composed of red and 

 white, crimson and white, purple and white, and brown and white, are most 

 esteemed for colours. The entire red, the lake coloured, the white, and the 

 yellow, are less esteemed. Ked Double Tulips and also Yellow Double Tulips 

 are also cultivated. 



A hundred guineas was once no uuconimon price for a good root of this 

 gaudy plant. 



Tulips are natives of the Levant, and blow in March in their native country. 

 We have already stated our opinion that the Clarimond Tulip is a distinct 

 species. 



