URBAN'S TIDE. 149 



MAY 28. St. Germanus, b. and conf. a.d. 576. 



St. Caraumus, martyr. 



Obs. St. Germanus was born at Autim about the year 469. He 

 was ordained priest by St. Agrippinus bishop of Autim. In 554 he 

 was exalted to the episcopal chair of Paris. By his zeal the re- 

 mains of idolatry were extirpated in France in the third council of 

 Paris in 557. He had the principal share in drawing up the ca- 

 nons. The Saint continued his labours for the conversion of sinners 

 till he was called to receive the reward of them on the 28th of May, 

 575, being eighty years old. 



Lurid Iris Iris lurida flowers. 



Stinking Iris Iris foetidissima flowers. 



Shady Saxifrage Saxifraga umbrosa flowers. 



Smallest Piony Paeonia humilis full flower. 



Thrift Statice Armerin flowers. 



Hvbrid Goatsbeard Tragopogo7i cupreum flowers. 



Indian Rose Rosa Indica flowers. 



The Lurid Iris is now common in our gardens, and is one of the 

 least ornamental of the sort. 



We have already spoken of the Purple Goatsbeard. The Copper- 

 coloured or Hybrid Goatsbeard appears to be a hybrid or else an 

 accidental variety of it, which from time to time appears occasionally 

 among the others in our gardens, the florets of the rays are of a 

 more reddish or coppercoloured purple, and the inside of the flower 

 is yellowish : it flowered in our garden in Sussex in 1824, 1825, and 

 1826, but is by no means common. 



Lines on Spring, by Kleist. 

 Who thus, O Tulip ! thy gaypainted breast 

 Id all the colours of the Sun has diest ? 

 Well could I call thee, in thy saudy pride. 

 The Queen of Flowers; but blooming by thy side 

 Her thousand leaves that beams of love adorn, 

 Her throne surrounded by protectinir tliorn. 

 And smell eternal, form a juster claim. 

 Which ni^es the heaveiiborn Hose the lofty name, 

 Who having slept throughout the wintry storm. 

 Now throuivh the opening buds displays her smiling form. 

 Between the leaves the silver Whitethorn shows 

 Its dewy blossoms, pure as mountain snows. 

 Here the blue Hyacinth's nectareous cell 

 To my charmed senses gives its cooling smell. 

 In lowly beds the purple Violets bloom. 

 And liberal shower around their rich perfume. 

 See, how the Peacock stalks yon beds beside. 

 Where rayed in sparkling dust and velvet pride. 

 Like brilliant stars, arranged in splendid row. 

 The proud Auriculas their lustre show : 

 The jealous bird now shows his spelling breast, 

 His mauycoloured neck and lofty crest; 

 Then all at once his dazzling tail displays. 

 On whose broad circle thousand rainbows blaze. 

 The wanton Butterflies, with fickle wing 

 Flutter round every flower that decks the spring ; 

 Then on their painted pinions eager haste. 

 The luscious Cherry's crimson blood to taste. 



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