270 MICHAELMAS TIDE. 



SEPT. 26, SS. JusTiNA and Cypriax, martyrs, 

 A.D. 304. 



St. Eusebius, pope and confessor. 



St. Colman Elo, abbot and confessor in Ireland. 



St. Nilus the younger, abbot. 



Obs. The persecution of Dioclesian breaking out, St. Cyprian 

 was apprehended. St. Justina, who was at Damascus, falling into 

 the hands of the persecutors, was presented to the same judge. 

 After undergoing dreadful torments, their heads were struck off. 

 They were executed upon the banks of the river GaLlus, which passes 

 not far from the city of Nicomedia. 



This is Holy Rood Day in the old style. 



Gigantic Golden Rod SoHHago gigantea full fl. 



Fineleaved Wormwood Artemesia tenuifolia fl. 



Tartarian Wormwood Artemesia Santonica fl. 



Indian Wormwood Artemesia Indica fl. 



Japanese Wormwood Artemesia J aponica fl. 



Southernwood Artemesia Abrotanum still fl. 



By this time all the Wormwoods, or nearly so, will have got into 

 flower ; they are by no means an interesting tribe, except from their 

 remarkable scents. That of the Southernwood is not disagreeable ; 

 this plant has been by some supposed to have been formerly written 

 Suddenwood, as it is still pronounced, from the slips of this plant 

 when stuck into the ground so suddenly becoming a shrub, whose 

 stem is quite wood. 



Stoats and Weasels are now very active in the poultry yards ; but 

 they are useful auxiliaries in destroying Rats, and for this reason it 

 becomes a question whether they ought not rather to be preserved 

 than destroyed. We are persuaded from experience that the destruc- 

 tion of small birds always injures the crops, by letting insects get 

 too numerous, which the birds destroy, if not molested. And perhaps 

 the same may be said of Stoats and Rats. The farmer should con- 

 sult his own interest, and not consider the preservation of the game, 

 from which he derives no profit. — Farming Maiims. 



Zodiacal Light. — A remarkable luminous appearance of a pyra- 

 midal form extending above the setting and rising sun, called the 

 Zodiacal Light, is seen about this time of year, as it is likewise at 

 the vernal equinox. Of this phenomenon much is said by Mairan 

 in his book Sur I'Aurore Boreale, 4to. Paris, 1754. 



The sky at this lime of year continues to exhibit very beautiful 

 phenomena, and the clouds at sunset are often more coloured than 

 usual : this was particularly the case in 1810. 



The gathering of Apples now goes on apace, and numbers of 

 windfalls, scattered by the equinoctial gales and breezes of Septem- 

 ber, are annually spoiled by their being bruised in falling, reminding 

 us of the old distich : 



September blow soft till ihcfrtdCs in the loft. 



