138 WHIT3UN TIDE? 



MAY 17. St. Paschal Baylon, conf. a. d. 1592. 

 St. Possidius, bishop and confessor. 

 St. Maden or Madern, confessor. 

 St. Maw, confessor. 

 St. Catban, bishop and confessor. 

 St. Silave, bishop and confessor in Ireland. 



Obs. St. Paschal was born in 1540 at Torre Hermosa, of poor 

 but virtuous parents. At the age of twenty he embraced the order 

 of the barefooted reformed Franciscans. After a life spent in pe- 

 nance and prayer, he joined the blessed spirits in heaven on the 17th 

 of May, in 1592, being fifty two years old. 



Early Red Poppy Papaver Argemone flowers. 

 Common Columbine Aquilegia vulgaris flowers. 

 Dark Columbine Aqiiilegia atropurpurea flowers. 

 Hibrid Columbine Aquilegia hybrida Bowers. 

 Rhododendron Rhodcdendron Ponticum flowers. 



The Papaver Argemone is found in Cornfields, and, like the rest 

 of the genus, its petals are very fugacious, so that the flowers which 

 open in the morning are often fallen by night. The capsule of this 

 sort is long and rough, and of the shape of an irregular inverted cone. 



We have doubts about the specific distinction of the three Colum- 

 bines here mentioned, 'i he common one is wild in many parts of 

 Sussex. We have seen it flowering in great abundance on Ditch- 

 ling Common on the 20th of May. We have also found both the 

 blue and the white variety near Chariness, on a bank in a lane. 



The Rhododendron is a beautiful shrub, of which theie are seve- 

 ral sorts. The purple flowers mix agreeably with the scarlet blos- 

 soms of the Azalea nudijiora, and the yellow of the Azalea Ponticu, 

 while growing in company on a smooth and well kept Grassplot. 

 The Rhododendron likes a rich mould composed of bog earth and 

 loam, and the superaddition of large loose stones and moss about its 

 roots seems to agree with it, which may be accounted for from its 

 natural habitation, which is in the fissures of rocks in the southern 

 parts of Europe. 



The Columbine is so called from a fancied resemblance to the bill 

 of a Dove, just as the Romans likened it to that of an Eagle, and 

 called it Aquilegia. 



This is generally a dry time of year, and the gardens, and particularly the 

 plants in pots, require frequent watering. This is best done eaily in the morn- 

 ins or late at nii^ht. The worst of it is that at this time of year we water the 

 weeds along with the better plants, so that the hoe and rake become as neces- 

 saiyas the arrosoir. — A vestal meanderini' along an abbey garden, and seeing 

 this effect produced, exclaimed, " As these weeds do re eive the water where- 

 with the dry earth is moistened, intended only to nourish tlie plants, and 

 thereby encrease faster than they do, and by degrees clioak them ; so when the 

 oil of flattery is poured into our thirsty souls with the view only to strengthen 

 our virtues, doth it also water the seeds of vanity which lie buried in the heart, 

 and which anon spring up and in time obscure the fruits of sanctity."— /^or/te^. 



