HOLY CROSS TIDE. 125 



MAY 4. St. Monica, widow, a.d. 387. 



St. Godard, bishop and confessor, 1038. 



Obs. St. jMonica was born in 332, ia a pious family, and early 

 instructed in the fear of God. As soon as marriageable, she was 

 disposed of to a citizen of Tegaste, of whom she had two sons and 

 one daughter. Her husband was an idolator, and very passionate : 

 he was at length converted through the unshaken patience and good 

 example of St. JMonica ; he was baptized, and died the year follow- 

 ing. St. JMonica set out lor Africa with her sons and other friends, 

 but died on the road at Ostia, after nine days' illness, in the fifty 

 sixth year of her age, and of our Lord 387. 



Red Azalea Azalea nudiflQia flowers. 

 Yellow Azalea Azalea Pontica flowers. 

 Stock Gilliflower Matthiola incana flowers. 

 Slenderleaved Piony Paeonia tenuifolia flowers. 

 Slender Narcissus Narcissus tenuior flowers. 

 Lesser Stitchwort Stellaria graminea flowers. 

 Sherrardia Sherrardia arvensis flowers. 

 White Piony Paeonia alba flowers. 

 Tree Piony Pionia arborea flowers. 



The Stock is by this time pretty generally in blow, though its 

 maximum of flowering takes place a fortnight hence. 



The Slenderleaved Piony will flower in our gardens as early as 

 this day in most situations ; it likes a moist soil, with a mixture of 

 bog mould. The flower of this species, which is of a deep reddish 

 lake colour, get sometimes double like most of the other sorts. 



The Azalea are shrubs, about the bigness of the Mazereon ; 

 they both begin to flower now in early years, and in late ones a 

 fortnight later. 



This is the best time for sowing garden annual flower seeds. 



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