VISITATION TIDE. 187 



JULY 5. St. Peter of Luxemburg, a.d. 1387. 



St. Modwena, virgin in Ireland, 



St. Edana, virgin in Ireland. 



Obs. St. Peter was born at Ligny, a small town in Lorrain, in 

 1369. In his tender age the least sallies of the passions seemed 

 rather prevented than subdued. He made a private vow of perpe- 

 tual chastity before he was seven years of age ; at ten years old he 

 was sent to Pans for his studies. In 1383 his brother the Count of 

 St. Pol obtained for him a canonry in Our Lady's at Paris. 

 Clement VII., who in a great schism was chosen by France for true 

 Pope, nominated hira Archdeacon of Dreux, and soon after, in 1384, 

 Bisliop of Metz. On fasting days commanded by the church he 

 took no other sustenance than bread and water. In 1384 Clement 

 VII. created him cardinal, under the titls of St. George, and in 

 1386 called him to Avignon, to reside there near his person. Soon 

 after his promotion he was seized witii a sharp fever in 1387 ; after 

 conversing with God in silent prayer, he gave up his innocent soul 

 into His hands on the 2d of .Tuly, being eighteen years old. Though 

 he had the administration of a diocese, he had not received priestly 

 orders. 



Double Yellow Rose Rosa sulphurea full flower. 



It is now that the wild Heath displays its purple dyes, the purple 



succeeding the yellow Furze of spring, there being no yellow 



now of this sort on the waste lands except the Broom. The Heath 



most common is the Erica vulgaris. 



Erica on Caledonian hills sublime 

 Spreads its dark mantle, where the Bees delight 

 To seek their purest honey, flourishes, 

 Sometimes with bells like Amelliyst'', and then 

 Paler, an>l shaded like the maiden's check 

 Witli gradual blushes; other while as white 

 As rime that hangs upon the frozen spray. 

 01 this old Scotia's hardy mountaineers 

 Their rustic couches form ; and there enjoy 

 Sleep, which beneath his velvet canopy 

 Luxurious Idleness implores in vain. 



Mrs. C. Smiih. 



In gardens the more completely solstitial plants are now in full blow, such 

 as that brilliant ornament the Scarlet Lychnis the Sweet Williams, ail the 

 Hoses, the Canterbury Bells, the Lilies, the Day Lily, and many others ; while 

 tlie aestival plants begin to open, as the Indian Cress, the Musk Flower, the 

 Evening Primrose, the Azure Bindweed, the Snapdragons, the Malleins, and a 

 numerous class hereafter to be enumerated. 



Opvi9o<riaJ7re. — One of the most remarkable things now is the silence of 

 the birds, July and August being called mute months, in consequence of the 

 cessation of their songs. The grove is all silent. The Nightingale no longer 

 enchants us, and tlie Cuckoo Is gone. Swallows become numerous from 

 the accession of the young broods, and young birds in general being to be 

 seen about. 



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