NATIVITY TIDE. • 251 



SEPT. 7. St. Cloud, confessor, a.d. 560. 

 St. Reine, virgin and martyr, 251. 

 St. Evurtius, bishop, 340. 

 St. Grimonia or Germana, virgin and martyr. 

 St. Madelberte, virgin and abbess, 705. 

 SS. Alchmund and Tilberht, 8th cent. 

 St. Eunan, bishop of Raphoe in Ireland. 



Obs. St. Cloud, in Latin Chlodoardus, is the first and most illus- 

 trious saint of the royal family of France; and the Fete de St. 

 Cloud, at St. Cloud near Paris, is annually celebrated with great 

 gaiety and splendour. A beautiful play of waterworks still amuse 

 the vast Parisian multitude at the Garden of the Palace on this day. 



St. Evurtius was Bishop of Orleans about the year 340. 



St. Reine is in Latin called Regina, and was a virgin martyr in 

 the year 251. 



Golden Starvvort Aster sohdaginoides fl. 



Jesuit's Bark Tree Iva frutescens defl. 



This plant, called also Etoile de St. Cloud from its time of blow- 

 ing, is one of the most showy of the Starworts cultivated in our 

 gardens. 



In fine weather about this period it is no uncommon thing to see 

 the ground so covered with the woof of tlie Spider that it appears, 

 when shining in the sun, to be covered with a silvery network ; this 

 is most striking early in the morning, when the dew reflects the light. 

 Wasps are still very troublesome from their numbers, and we have 

 observed that they are more numerous after rather wet summers 

 than after a continuance of hot dry weather. In some of the 

 southern counties Hornets are now seen about, and are very danger- 

 ous on account of their stings. 



In the Travels of Anacharsis is the follovving curious passage on 



a taste for flowers : 



Apr^s I'-Voir tiaverst une biisse couv peuplce de poules, de canards, et 

 d'autres oistaux doiiiestiques, nous visitanies I'ecurie, la beraerie, ainsi que 

 le jardin des Heurs, ofi nous vinies successivement briller Ics Narcisses, les 

 Jacinthes, les Anemones, les Iris, les Violettes de differentes touleiirs, les 

 Boses de diverses especes, et toiitts soites de plantes O'loiif^rantes. \'ous ne 

 serez pas suipris, me, dil il, du soin que je prcnds de les cuUiver : vous ^avez 

 que nous en parons nos temples, nos autels, les images denosauges; que 

 nous en cour<i[inons nos tfites dans nos repas et dans nos ceremonies saintes ; 

 que nous les repaudoiis sur nos tables et sin- nos lits ; que nous avons meme 

 I'attention d'otfrir a nos .Snintes Fatjonnes les fieurs qui nous son; les plus 

 agr^ables. D'ailleurs un agriculteur ne doit point n^gliger les petits profits ; 

 toutes les fois que j'envoie au inarch^ d'Atliciies, du bois, du clKirlion, des 

 denrees et des fruits, j'y joins quelques corbeiUes de fleurs qui sent enlevees 

 ^ I'instant." 



