. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. THE COTTAGE GARDENER. WEEKLY CALENDAR. M D w D AUGUST 30âSEPT. 5, 1849. Plants dedicated to each day. Risâ¢. Sun Sets. Moon E. and Sets. Moon's Age. Clock bef. Sun. vTar"' 30 Th. Red Bryony berries ripe. Guernsey Lily. 11a. .5 SO a. 6 1 30 12 0 27 242 â M K, Peaebes ripe. [seen. Autumnal Pheasant's Eye, 13 48 3 30 13 0 9 343 1 S. Giles. Clouded Yellow butterfly Common Orpine. 44 3 34 14 0 10 244 3 SnN. 13 Sun. aft. Trin. Chaffinch sings again. Golden Rod. 16 43 rises © 0 29 245 H M Meadow Saffron blooins. Common Fleabaue. 17 41 7 a 13 16
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. THE COTTAGE GARDENER. WEEKLY CALENDAR. M D w D AUGUST 30âSEPT. 5, 1849. Plants dedicated to each day. Risâ¢. Sun Sets. Moon E. and Sets. Moon's Age. Clock bef. Sun. vTar"' 30 Th. Red Bryony berries ripe. Guernsey Lily. 11a. .5 SO a. 6 1 30 12 0 27 242 â M K, Peaebes ripe. [seen. Autumnal Pheasant's Eye, 13 48 3 30 13 0 9 343 1 S. Giles. Clouded Yellow butterfly Common Orpine. 44 3 34 14 0 10 244 3 SnN. 13 Sun. aft. Trin. Chaffinch sings again. Golden Rod. 16 43 rises © 0 29 245 H M Meadow Saffron blooins. Common Fleabaue. 17 41 7 a 13 16 0 48 246 4 Tu. Horticidtural Society's Meeting. Common Soapwort. 19 39 7 39 17 1 7 247 5 W. Old Bartholomew. Hawthorn berries ripe, Common Musbroom. 21 37 8 5 18 1 27 248 Saint Giles, or ^gidius, was born at Athens, but passed into France during the year 715, and became a disciple of Caesarius, bishop of Aries ; subsequently a hermit, and finally promoted to be abbot of a monastery at Nismes : he died at this place 750. His ex- treme charity, and his refusal to be healed from a lameness, that he might not be without " this thorn in his flesh," caused him to be addressed by Roman Catholic mendicants and cripples as their patron saint. The churches dedicated to him were the favourite resort of the beggarly fraternity, and our St. Giles', Cripplegate, in London, even before the Norman conquest, received its name from the mise- rable objects who there assembled to solicit charity. Old Bartholomew is the day on which the festival of St. Bar- tholomew was celebrated before the alteration of our calendar. It is now kept on the 24th of August. The alteration of the calendar was rendered necessary for the purpose of making the civil year agree with the natural year, or that period of time in which the earth tra- vels round the sun. To effect this, in the year 1752 eleven days were omitted between the 2nd and 14th of September, so that this month contained in that ye
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