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AUG. 24. St. Baiitholomew, apostle. 

 SS. martyrs of Utica, 258. 

 St. Ouen, bishop, 683. 

 St. Irchard, bishop and confessor. 



Obs. The name given to St. Bartholomew is not his proper but 

 patronymical name, and imports the son of Tholomew or Tolmai. 

 8t. Bartholomew was chosen by Christ one of his twelve apostles. 

 He carried the gospel through the most barbarous countries, and 

 was crowned with a most glorious martyrdom in Great Armenia. 



A custom formerly prevailed of giving away small knives on 

 St. Bartholomew's Day at Croyland Abbey. See Cough's Croy- 

 land Abbey. — Foimerly when printing offices had only paper win- 

 dows these used to be rrnewed every St. Bartholomew's Day. The 

 celebrated fair called Bartlemy Fair in Smithfield is now kept on 

 this saint's day in the old style, and is continued Sept. 3d, 4th, 

 and 5th. 



St. Ouen was keeper of the seals to King Clotaire ; his shrine is 

 at Rouen Cathedral. 



Sunflower Helianthus annuus full fl. 

 Grove Starwort Aster nemoralis fl. 

 Silverleaved Starwort Aster argenfeus fl. 

 Summer Starwort Aster aestivus full fl. 

 Annual Starwort Aster annuus fl. 

 Gigantic Goldenrod Solidago gigantea full fl. 

 Sweet Goldenrod Solidago odora full fl. 

 Gigantic Cineraria Cineraria gigantea full fl. 



The Sunflower is called in the Floral Directory St. Bartholomew's Star. 

 We might enumerate many nmie Asters, (iol'leiirotls, and other syngenecious 

 plants now In flower; they continue amona other late aestival and autumnal 

 plants to blow till the frosty weather cuts them off. Numerous species of 

 Coreopsis, Heliiinthus, and Rndbeckia, " hich are now in full flower, do con- 

 tinue all next month. The Asters, however, are the latest to flower, and are 

 truly autumnal plants, being in the greatest perfection about Michaelmas, 

 beginning to faile at Martinmas, and l>cini' quite out of flower by the feast of 

 Allhallows. Dahlias are still in perfection, and sometimes, owing to bad 

 management, are but Justin flovveral this lime. They vary in colour almost 

 ad inflnitum. 



The gentle refreshing breezes by day and the delicious calms by night at 

 this time of year draw a vast concourse of peisons of leisure to the shores of 

 Great Britain and France. There i^ perhaps no season of the year when the 

 seaside is more agreeable. Batbiiiif, sailijig, and other marine recreations, are 

 at no time better suited to beguile ihe liours ot the warm summer day than at 

 present; and the peculiar silliness of a s aside evening scene by moonlisht is 

 now to be enjoyed in perfeciion, as Cynthia beuins to ascend higher in her car 

 after the termination of the niahtless summer solstice, and wlien the unre- 

 mitted heat o( th» l>ogdays at Icnath gives place to the more refreshing dew» of 

 a longer period of nocturnal coolness. 



