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JULY 25. St. James the Great, apostle, a.d. 43. 

 St. Christopher, martyr, 304. 

 SS. Thea, Valentine, Paul, martyrs, 308. 

 St. Cuculus, martyr. 

 St. Nissen, abbot in Ireland. 



Jurinalia. — Julian Cal. 



06s. St. James was the brother of St. John the Evangelist, and 

 by birth a Galilean, by profession a fisherman. How St. James 

 was employed in preaching and promoting the gospel after Christ's 

 ascension we have no account. He was apprehended and beheaded 

 at Jerusalem by orders of Agrippa, a little before Easter, in the year 

 43, about fourteen years after the death of Christ. 



The productions of the sea about this time of year give rise to the 

 idle and often injurious habit of eating Oysters. They come now 

 first into the markets, which gave Churchill the poet occasion to say 

 of this month, 



July to whom, the Dog Star in her train, 



St. James gives Oysters and St. Swithin Rain. 



Fulgid Rudbeckia Rudbeckia fulgida fl. 

 St. James' Cross Amaryllis formosissima fl. 

 Herb Christopher Actaea spicata fl. 

 Cardinal Flower Lobelia fulg ens fl. 



The Cardinal Flower is a very handsome plant, the scarlet species 

 in particular; the blue however is not wanting in beauty. These 

 plants do not flower the first year ; yet, as the offsets produced from 

 the roots do not flower so strongly as seedling plants, it is better to 

 sow them : this should be done in the autumn. They may at first 

 be sown several together ; the pots in which they are sown should 

 stand abroad in mild weather, but under cover in frost or heavy rain. 

 In spring the plants will appear ; they may then remain abroad alto- 

 gether, and must be kept always rather moist. When big enough 

 to remove, they may be replanted separately into small pots, or, if 

 preferred, may be so sown at first. They should be placed where 

 they may have the morning sun, and there remain till autumn ; they 

 must then be taken into the house, and be placed near to an open 

 window in mild weather. If in the course of the summer the loots 

 should fill the pots, the plants must be removed into larger ones. 

 The following spring they must be potted in fresh earth, and again 

 placed abroad. They will flower in August, and, if not exposed to 

 the midday sun, will continue long in beauty. The roots will last 

 two or three years. They are likewise increased by their oflTsets, 

 and by cuttings of the stalks, like rockets, but there is no other way 

 so good as sowing them. 



Herb Christopher is said to have been named from St. Christo- 

 pher celebrated today. 



