Holy Flowers. 
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1. Dark Stapelia. St. Eligius, Bishop. 
2. Lemon Geodorum. St. Bibiania. 
3. Indian-tree. St. Francis Xavier. 
4. Barbadoes Gooseberry. St. Chrysolcwus. 
5. Long-stalked Hibiscus. St. Crispina. ° 
6. Nest-flowered Heath. St. Nicholas, Arch- 
bishop. 
7. Hairy Achania. St. Ambrose. 
8. American Arbor Vitae. Blessed Virgin 
Mary. 0 
Corsican Spruce. St. Leocadia. 
Portugal Cypress. St. Eulalia. 
11. Aleppo Pine. St. Damascus, Pope 
12. Crowned Heath. St. Eadburga. 
13. Afncan Arbor Vitae. St. Lucy, Martyr. 
14. Swamp Pine. St. Spiridion, Archbishop. 
15. Pitch Pine. St. Florence, Abbot. 
DECEMBER. 
St. Adelaide, Eni- 
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10, 
Chinese Arbor Vitae, 
press. 
White Cedar. St. Olympias. 
18. New Holland Cypress. St. Winebald 
19. Bicolor Heath. St. Samthana, Abbess. 
20. Stone Pine. St. Philogonius, Bishop 
21. Sparrow-wort. St. Thomas, Apostle. 
22. Pellucid Heath. St. Cyril. 
Cedar of Lebanon. St. Victoria. 
Frankincense Pine. Sts. Thrasilla and 
Emiliana. 
Holly. The Nativity. 
Purple Heath. St. Stephen, Martyr. 
- Flame Heath. St. John the Evangelist 
28. Blood-colour Heath. The Holy Innocents. 
29. Heath. St. Thomas A’Becket. 
Ponthieva. St. Anysia. 
No flower appropriated. St. Silvester. 
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The following lines entitled “ Holy Flowers,” are by Mary 
? nd r y re .inspired by these words of a Franciscan : 
Mindful of the pious festivals which our Church prescribes 
I have sought to make these charming objects of floral nature 
tne timepieces of my religious calendar and the mementoes of 
tae hastening period of my mortality. Thus I can light the 
taper to our Virgin Mother on the blowing of the white snow¬ 
drop, which opens its floweret at the time of Candlemas ; the 
lady s-smock and the daffodil remind me of the Annuncia¬ 
tion; the blue harebell, of the festival of St. George • the ra 
nunculus of the Invention of the Cross; the scarlet’lychnis 
of St. John the Baptist’s Day; the white lily, of the Visitation 
T\/ri LU , Lady \4 nd the vir ff ins_ bower, of her Assumption; and 
1 ichaelmas, Martinmas, Holy Rood, and Christmas have all 
tneir appropriate monitors. I learn the time of day from the 
shutting of the blossoms of the star of Jerusalem and the dan¬ 
delion, and the hour of the night by the stars,” those flowers 
“ Ah ! simple-hearted piety, 
In former days such flowers could see. 
The peasant, wending to his toil, 
Beheld them deck the leafy soil; 
They sprung around his cottage door : 
He saw them on the heathy moor ; 
Within the forest’s twilight glade, ’ 
Where the wild deer its covert made ; 
In the green vale, remote and still, 
And gleaming on the ancient hill. 
The days are distant now — gone by 
With the old times of minstrelsy, 
When, all unblest with written lore, 
