for each day in the year 
time of the Saint’s fenitval. 
Every Day Book, printed in London, in the year 1826. 
JANUARY. 
rustinus, Viburnum tinus, St. Faine or hindi 
” . Lau 
4 an hag elk of "the sixth centu 
“3 2. Groundsel, Pese vulgaris, St. Macarius, of Alex- 
andria, A. D. 3 
3. ris, Persian, ‘Tris persica, St. Genevieve, patroness 
of Paris 
aris, 
4. ley 
5. Hellebore, Hidleborus fetidus, St. Simeon Stylites, 
Corylae avellana, St. Titus, disciple of St. 
Rome. 
6. Moss, screw, Tortula rigida, St. Nilammon. 
January the 6th, is chit twelfth aay, Ge: French, 
Le jour des — ois,) because it falls n the 
after Christ 
the origin es Tice Ifth Day, yet all concur in the 
end; that is, to do honor to the Eastern Ma gis Brand 
tells us, ‘‘ ‘that the practice of choosing aking on twelfth 
day, is similar to a custom t t existed a he 
nd Romans, who on the festival days 
ancient Greeks a 
f Saturn, aboiat is season of the year, drew lots for 
kingdoms, and kings exercised their temporary 
authority.’’ Mr. Fosbroke wok that ‘‘the king of 
turna M4 s, and from thence come 
our king and queen, 0 oie .? In France the 
Twelfth-cake i is plain, ssiclbaiiin a bean; i - wn 
the bean, is King 0 
jesty, ‘who iene and ve 
homage from all during the evening. 
Am ong the multitaudinows “variety of curiohs and 
d’s 
roni- 
is ‘the <2 account of a courtly Nii in 
ry VIII of England personally bo 
Sie pe 
the er was ended, the king kept a 
ne te Christmasse at  ¢ eed of Eltham; and on 
Hy 
Dedication of Flotwers, 
Tur Roman Catholic Monks, or the observers of Roman Catholic rules, have compiled a catalogue of Flowers, 
and dedicated each flower to a particular Saint, on account of its flowering about the 
Such appropriations form a Floral Directory, which has been abstracted from Hone’ s 
FLORAL DIRECTORY. 
the Twelfe-Night, in = hall was made a goodlie ae 
woondorouslie set out; and in it certeine ladies 
knights, and when os ‘King ‘ail Queene (Catharine aa 
Arr agon) were set, in came other knights and assailed 
the " gon manie a we stripe was giuen ; and 
at the ‘ast, t aie. And 
then issued nis, knights eh ladies ollkof the ~— 
which ladies were rich and strangelie disguised : 
all their apparell was in braids of gold, fret with m 
and bodies were after the fashion of Amste 
whe ae 
“And cing was doone, the banket was 
serued in, hundred dishes, with great plentie to 
eurie bo 
‘They come! they come! each blue-eyed sport, 
1. Laurel, Portugal, Prunus lusitanica, Bt 
“Bs Tremella, yellow, Tremella deliquescens, “St. Gu- 
russels. 
dula. Patroness of B 
mmon, assus, or Com- 
9. Laurel, lauro-cer 
mon small-fruited cherry—St. Marciana, of Rome 
10. ‘ee Europeus, St. William, of Bourges, 
a hornum, Swan-neck thread- 
one 
Paes iamaiee, Funaria hygrometica, St. Arca- 
3. Yew Tree, common, Hetus baccate, St. Veronica. 
A naitet Milan” ALD. “at 
