dedicated to Saints 



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themselves by shoemaking ; and, it having been 

 discovered that they were Christians, they were 

 beheaded about the year 308. There is a tradition 

 current in Romney Marsh, that the reHcs of these 

 saints were cast into the sea, and washed ashore 

 upon that part of the Kentish coast. Certain it is 

 that " Crispin and Crispianus " is a very favourite 

 public-house sign in Kent. 

 Oct. 28. — SS. Simon and Jude, Apostles. S. Simon : 

 Late Chr^^santhemum ; Chrysanthemum scro- 

 timm. S. Jude : Scattered Star Wort ; Aster 

 passiflorus, 



S. Simon is supposed to have suffered martyrdom 

 in England, by being sawn asunder; and S. Jude 

 was slain with the sword in Persia. 



Nov. T. — All Saints' Day. Sweet Bay : Laiiriis nobilis. 



Dark red Sunflower : Helianthus atro rube?is. 

 Nov. 6. — S. Leonard, Confessor. Yew. Taxus haccata. 



