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10. Violet, pale, “iola tombrigens, St. Mechtildes, 
Abbess—after 1300 
it, ae enr Leantodon taraxacum, St. Leo the Great, 
i ar 
thes, ag rapa ii Saxifraga crassifo- 
i er <r Bishop, A 
arcissus, or Noes viridiflorus, St. Her- 
meni, se abs 
, common ana officinalis, St. Lidwina, 
A. at 
15. Siteiovort, ee Stellaria holostea, St. Peter 
meg e ye Sa 
Tulip reli, “Talipa Sylvestris, St. Joachim, of 
sien A. D.1 
7. Arum, Fria’ ener broad-leafed, Arum arisarum, 
Be. Stephen, of Citeaux, ’Abbot, A. D. 1134, 
18. Narcissus, musk, Nareissus Moschato, St. Apollo- 
nius, A. D. 186. 
19. Garlic, Allium ursinum, St. Leo IX. Pope, A. D. 
10 
20. Snow-flake, spring, er vernum, St. Agnes, 
of a reamean A.D.1 
* Sanetoeie orientalis albus, St. 
Anscin, Acetahop 0 of Canterbur 
22. ‘oot, wood, or goldilocks, Ranunculus auri 
~_ St "Rats of Glen d ag e 
 Hyaci nthus , St. George, 
of ase the Martyr, pie, pi Engla and. He 
was made Bishop of seu —— the reign of 
the Emperor Constantius ssion of Julian the 
apostate, was the signal for . ‘downfall of the Bishop ; 
who was first imprisoned, and afterwards massacred, 
with two of his friends, by the Pagan populace of Alex- 
andria, A. D. 2 
Pope who 
among the martyrs of the church ; about the . 494, 
oe Black thorn, Prunus spinosa, St. Fid 
> clarimond, Tulipa precoz, St. eek: the 
“4 _ 
eee ern tin, Lived Cath laced him 
26. age reret ets Erysimum barbarea, St. Richa- 
~~ tig A. D 
seek Wendel major, St. Anastasius, 
Pope meee ha 401, 
Arun, a ing maculatum, Sts. Didymus 
by Theodora, A.D 
rb Rol Cinies robertianum, St. Robert, 
Abbot of Molesme, A. D. 1110. 
30. Cowslip, Primula veris, St. Catharine, of Sienna, 
- 1380 
je a ae 
, Many day is chiefly spent in dancing round a ¢all 
Ww is consecrated to the Goddess of flowers— 
without the ph gery to be offered to it, in the 
whole circle of 
_ The sitinien custom fom of elebrating with cheerful and 
the establishmen 
ara) Was 
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and ambitious King, Henry VIII, yielded to the refin- 
ing, ee ae influence of Nature’s loveliness, when 
decked in her Spring attire. Accordingly, we read, in 
Hons’ Chronicles, that 
n Mai e day then next following in the aie 
eare of his po his grace being young, and willi 
Pe to be rt ose in the morning verie earlie, t D fetch 
Maie or gree ee ughs, himselfe fresh and richlie noice 
elled and clothed all his knights, squires and gentle- 
men in white sattin, and all his gard and yeomen of the 
crowne in white sarcenet ; and so went euerie man with 
his bow and arrowes shooting to the wood; and so 
repaired pee to the court, euerie man wit th a greene 
bough in 
Bs pory goeth alle the courte, both moste and leste, 
h the flowirs — and braunche and bloome, 
— cise hawthor 
With freshe Dartarithe partly blew and white. 
Chaucer. 
How beautifully the author of the following lines, 
enters into the spirit of those primitive pas 
Get up, get up, for shame the blooming morne 
Upon her me tee eee — god gs 
See how s her fair 
Frente str gtcicheal the chp 
Get up -a-bed, and 
The pdstnctiols herbe nly fro 
Each flower has wept, and bow’d voted A the East 
Above an ped since, yet ate are not drest, 
Nay! n so much as of bed, 
When a the birds hake mattins seyd, 
And sung their th ul hymnes, ’ tis sin, 
nc i mate to _ a 
Whe a thousand virgins is day 
Mace sooner then oN lark ra ore in May. 
Rise, and put on your foliage ; and be see 
To come pts like the gg estou re a greene, 
And sweet as Flora 
For pee for your e Or a ai : 
erat wed the pres wil a 
abundan 
hae: the childhood op the ti hath kept, 
Against you come, ae orient pearls unwept. 
and hem, while the light 
Hangs on the Neeckices ‘of the night; 
rn hill 
mself, or else stands still, 
Till you come forth. ash, dresse, be ae in in praying ; : 
ew beads are best, when once we goe a g. 
Come, my Corinna, come; and coming, marke 
g bough, 
: eche poreh, eche doore, ere this, 
e, a tabernacle is, 
Made up ae pa egen ak interwov 
iti As if here wi Sec habs Meal ahaaa ef live. 
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