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AUG. 2. St. Alfrida, virgin, a.d. 834. 

 St. Stephen, pope and martyr, 257. 



Obs. St. Alfrida is otherwise, and perhaps more properly, called 

 Etheldrida. 



St. Stephen was chosen Pope on the 3d of May, 253, and sat 

 four years, two months, and twenty one davs. The persecution of 

 Valerian was raised in 257, and in it St. Stephen was beheaded, 

 whilst he was sitting in his pontifical chair, which was buried with 

 his body, and is still shewn as stained with his blood. The relics 

 were translated to Pisa in 1682. His head is kept with great re- 

 spect at Cologne. 



Tigerflowered Lily Lilium Tigrinum full fl. 

 Onecoloured Lily Lilium concolor^. 

 Ximenesy Ximenesia enclioides full fl. 

 Great Golden Rod Solidago gigantea fl. 

 Welch Golden Rod Solidago Cambrica full fl. 

 Hoary Henbane Inula Oculus Christi fuW fl. 

 Mountain Arnick Arnica montana defl. 

 Shining Marigold Tagetes lucida fl. 

 Red Zinnia Zinnia multifiora fl. 

 Elegant Zinnia Zinnia elegans fl. 

 Threecoloured Goldflower Chrysanthemum cari- 

 natum fl. 



Scentless Feverfew Pyrethrum inodorum full fl. 

 Small Sunflower Helianthus Indicus fl. 

 Purple Rudbeckia Rudbeckia purpurea fl. 



St. Alfrida's lily, otherwise called Tiger Lily or Tigerflowered 

 Lily, was introduced into this country from China in 1804. But, 

 though it be of such recent introduction, it is become as common in 

 the gardens of the south of England as the Orange Lily or the 

 Turkscaps. Like the former it is bulbiferous, and therefore very 

 prolific, the bulbs of this species being easily raised ; they require 

 only to be left unmolested in good ground, and they will vegetate in 

 the border and encrease very fast. The flowers of this species are 

 not orange like the L. bulbiferum, nor red like L. chalcedonicum, 

 but are of a sort of salmon colour curiously spotted. 



