January 16. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
293 
D 
D 
Weather near London in 
1853. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Moon 
R. & S. 
Mpon’* 
Age. 
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— 
M 
W 
JANUARY 16 — 22 , 1855. 
.... 
Barometer. 
Thermo. 
Wind. 
Itairr in 
Inches. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Clock 
af. Sun. 
Day ot 
Year. 
16 
To 
Deraetrias aatricapilla. 
29.863—29.815 
46—41 
S.E. 
08 
1 a 8 
19 a 4 
26 
9 58 
10 19 
10 38 
16 
17 
Hyphydrus ovatus. 
30.076—29-928 
48—45 
S.W. 
10 
0 
20 
7 51 
29 
18 
Th 
Noterus sp&rsus. 
20.151—30.134 
48—35 
S.W. 
— 
59 a 7 
22 
sets. 
@ 
18 
19 
20 
F 
S 
Colymhetes bipunctatus. 
Sun’s declinat., 20° 11' s. 
30.065—29.944 
30.005—29.927 
45-29 
51—35 
S.E. 
S.W. 
01 
01 
58 
5 7 
24 
25 
5 a 46 
7 1U 
1 
2 
10 57 
19 
20 
21 
22 
21 
Sun 
3 Sunday after Epiphany. 
30 . 267 — 30.175 
50—28 
s. 
_ 
56 
27 
22 
M 
Acilius sulcatus. 
30.107—29.97* 
49—24 
S.W. 
— 
55 
29 
10 12 
4 
11 50 
The Box Tree comes next, alphabetically, in our 
translation of the Holy Scriptures. The Hebrew word 
1 eashur is so rendered, and whether the Box, or some 
other tree, was intended by that term, its derivation 
leaves no doubt that it referred to a flourishing ever¬ 
green tree. 
There are one or two passages (Ezekiel xxvii. 0, and 
2 Esdras xiv. 24) which are too doubtful to justify us in 
considering that they refer to this tree, or, indeed, to 
any tree; and there remains, therefore, only two verses 
in Isaiali where Teashur is so employed. These are 
the thirteenth verse of the sixtieth chapter, and the 
nineteenth verse of the forty-first chapter, and it is to 
the first wo shall chiefly confine our attention. 
It is as follows:—“The glory of Lebanon shall come 
unto thee, the Fir-tree, the Pine-tree, and t the Box 
together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I 
will make the place of my feet glorious.” In such 
inspired poetry “the Evangelical Prophet” foretold 
the prosperity of the Church of Christ; but we should 
always bear in mind, that every simile in the prophetical 
writings has within it much more fulness of meaning 
than usually meets the eye at the first impression. 
There is almost invariably a two-fold meaning—a literal 
and a mystical — besides various minor appropriate 
references that are developed only as later science and 
later research reveal the properties and qualities and 
circumstances of the object used as a prophetical fore¬ 
shadowing and illustration. 
We are convinced, that when the Prophet speaks thus 
of the Cedar—“ the glory of Lebanon,”—of the Fir, the 
Pine, and the Box, reference is made to the people who 
inhabit the climates where those trees abound, and who 
are all included among the multitudes of God’s universal 
Church, and all contributing to render “ the place of 
His feet glorious. At the same time, reference was 
intended to be made to those woods which should be 
employed, and, as it were, typically employed, in the 
re-construction of the Temple. As those woods were 
brought from various countries for the purposes of 
such construction, so would their people be brought 
together and united in one Church. 
Nor was the foregoing the only mode of employing 
evergreens by the Israelites to “ make the place of God’s 
feet gloriousfor they were brought into the Temple 
during their festivals, especially that of Tabernacles. 
This was in accordance with the Levitical law, which 
commands, “ Ye shall take you on the first day the 
boughs of goodly trees, branches of Palm-trees, and the 
boughs of thick trees, and Willows of the brook ; and ye 
shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days.” 
( Lev'll. xxiv. 40.) During the continuance of the 
festival the Israelites walked in procession round the 
altar with the branches in their hands, and the branches, 
like the songs they uttered, were termed “ Hosannahs.” 
This practice of introducing evergreen boughs into 
places of public worship at certain festivals, we all 
know is retained in the Christian Church. Among 
those evergreens is included the Box. On Palm Sunday 
its sprigs are used as a substitute for Palms in Roman 
Catholic countries; and they were so in this country in 
the sixteenth century. The following extract from the 
churchwarden’s accounts at St. Martin Outwich, in 
London, will serve as an example of many similar:— 
“1510—11. Paid for Palme, Box-floures, and cakes 
iiii d.” 
Garlands of it were also hung up in churches on the 
festival of St. Barnabas, June 11th. Thus, in the 
churchwarden’s accounts for St. Mary-at-hill, in London, 
we find this entry:— 
“1486. For two doss di Bocse garlands for prestes 
and clerkes on Saynt Barnabie daye, 
is. xd.” 
Besides this local anniversary employment of the 
Box, it was a general custom, in the olden time, to take 
down, on Candlemas day, February 2nd, the Holly and 
other Christmas evergreen decorations, and to put up in 
their place sprigs of Box. So general was this custom, 
that Herrick makes it the burthen of one of his 
sonnets:— 
“ Down with the Rosemary and Bays, 
Down with the Misseltoe; 
Instead of Holly now upraise 
The greener Box for show. 
The Holly hitherto did sway, 
Let Box now domineer, 
Until the dancing Easter~day, 
Or Easter-ere appear. 
Then youthful Box, which now hath grace 
Your houses to renew, 
Grown old, surrender must his place 
Unto the crisped Yew.” 
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No. CCCXXIX. Vol. XITT. 
