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JULY 29. St. Martha, virgin. 



SS. Simplicius, Faustinus, and Beatrice, martyrs. 



St. Felix, pope and martyr, 



St. Willi?im, bishop and confessor. 



St. Olaus, king and martyr. 



St. Olaus, king and martyr. 



Obs. St. Martha seems to have been one of those holy women, 

 says Butler, who attended Christ during his passion, and stood be- 

 low his cross. After his ascension she came to Marseilles, and 

 ended her life in Provence, where her body was found at Tarascon, 

 soon after the discovery of St. Mary Magdalen. 



Red Chironia Chironia Centaureum full fl. 

 Sea Pancratium Pancratium maritimiun fl. 

 Hairy Rudbeckia Rudbeckia hirta vera fl. 



The Red Chironia or Centaury has a small pink flower, found 

 plentifully under the hedges in the south of England all summer. 



Many species of the beautiful genus Amaryllis now flower, but 

 they require shelter at night, and indeed at all times of day during 

 the early spring and winter months. Many Pancratiums, and other 

 plants of this tribe, also blow now. 



The summer fruits are now in perfection. Currants, Cherries, 

 and the later Strawberries, are still plentiful. Apricots and the 

 earlier Peaches are come in ; and the Green Chisel Pear, the Jar- 

 gonelle, and the Cuisse Madamme are ripe. 



Flies about this time of year begin to encrease in number, and to 

 become very troublesome in our houses, where they often swarm. 

 They continue all the month of August and early part of September, 

 during which periods they are particularly annoying before rain. 

 There are several sorts of Flies which inhabit our gardens, and who 

 do not make their appearance in the house, that come forth and pre- 

 vail at different periods during the aestival season. The economy 

 of these insects is but little known. 



Starlings, now congregated in numbers, fly about the fields 

 uttering a loud noise. 



