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SEPT. 5. St. Laurance Justinian, patriarch of 

 Venice, a.d. 1455. 

 St. Berlin, abbot, 709. 

 St. Alto of Ireland, abbot, 8th cent. 



Obs. St. Laurance Justinian was born at Venice in 1380. He 

 is recorded to have taken to a holy life in his nineteenth year, in 

 consequence of an impressive vision of the Eternal Wisdom, habit 

 ed as a chaste damsel, shining brighter than the sun, who invited 

 him to loose himself from the bondage of earthly cares and multifa- 

 rious objects of solicitude, and to seek the internal peace of the soul 

 in a devout life. He wrote at seventy four years old his last work 

 on the degrees of perfection, and died at the age of seventy five ; 

 when dying he refused the proffered comforts of a featherbed, and 

 chose straw, quoting St. Martin, who said in his last moments that a 

 Christian ought to die in sackcloth and ashes. 



St. Bertin was said to be a model of monastic perfection : he was 

 born near Constance in Switzerland about 597. He was abbot of 

 the famous Abbey of St. Bertin, near the town of St. Omer's in 

 French Flanders, a figure of which will be found among the nume- 

 rous interesting engravings in the " Delices des Fays Bas," of which 

 there are many editions, some in four, and some in five volumes. 



Mushroom Agaricus campestris most plentiful. 

 Horn of Plenty Cornucopia cucullatum defl. 

 Dog's Tail Spartina cynosuroides fl. 



Hed Poppies now go out of flower in quantities, so that after about this time 

 they are found but sparingly in waste places and neglected gardens. 



The common red Corn Poppies are with us the most common of all the 

 species, growing in cornfields, on walls, and on dry banks. They blow in 

 June and July. "They are likewise called Red Poppy, Cornrose, Windrose ; in 

 Yorkshire, Cnprose; and in some of the eastern counties, Cankerrose, Red- 

 weed, Headwark. Gerarde says the country people call them Cheesebowls. 

 In Fiance, la Pavot Rouge des Champs, la Pavot Sauvage, Coquelicot, Coqne- 

 licoq, toque. Ponceau, Confanon, Maudui, Graouselle, Rouzele, and in the 

 village dialect, Cabosseta. In Italy they are called Papavero Erratico, Pape- 

 vero Salvatico, Rosolaccio. 



The petals of the Poppy give out a fine colour when infused, and a syrap is 

 made from this infusion. 



In warm situations and on south walls Grapes begin to ripen, of which the 

 varieties are innumerable. In the south of Europe the vines climb round the 

 trees. Vines should always be trained in a serpentine and horizontal direction, 

 and never vertically. " The Persian vinedressers do all in their power to make 

 the Vine run up the wall, and curl over on ttie other side, which they do by 

 tying stones to the extremity of the tendril. May not this illustrate that beau- 

 tiful passage used in Genesis, xlix. 22? Joseph is a fruilful bou^h ; even a 

 fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall. The \'ine, 

 particularly in Turkey and Greece, is frequently made to entwine on trellises 

 around a wall, where in the heat of the day whole families collect themselves, 

 and sit under the shade." — Morier. 



In the Perennial Calendar under, today will be found som account of a cu- 

 riousand interesting superstition of the Medes and Persianse 



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