. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. THE COTTAGE GARDENER. WEEKLY CALENDAR. M w APRIL 5—11, 1849. Plants dedicated to Sun Sun Moon B. Moon'si Clock j Day of u u each day. bets. Age. T) Th Mauudy Th. Fieldfare last seen. Yellow Crown Imperial. 28 a 4 m aO 4 45 12 2 44 95 0 ]<• Good Ekid.\y. Turnip Fly appeai-s. Clustcved-Grape Hyacinth. 20 39 5 9 13 2 20 90 7 S Blackbird lays. Wood Anemone. 24 41 rises CS, 2 9i 97 8 StlN Easter Sun. Ringed Suake seen. Ground Ivy. 22 42 7a43 15 1 52 98 !) M E.\ster Mon. Rook hatches. Red Polyanthus. 19 44 8 47 10 1 35 99 10 Tu E ASTEE T. House-Sparro
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. THE COTTAGE GARDENER. WEEKLY CALENDAR. M w APRIL 5—11, 1849. Plants dedicated to Sun Sun Moon B. Moon'si Clock j Day of u u each day. bets. Age. T) Th Mauudy Th. Fieldfare last seen. Yellow Crown Imperial. 28 a 4 m aO 4 45 12 2 44 95 0 ]<• Good Ekid.\y. Turnip Fly appeai-s. Clustcved-Grape Hyacinth. 20 39 5 9 13 2 20 90 7 S Blackbird lays. Wood Anemone. 24 41 rises CS, 2 9i 97 8 StlN Easter Sun. Ringed Suake seen. Ground Ivy. 22 42 7a43 15 1 52 98 !) M E.\ster Mon. Rook hatches. Red Polyanthus. 19 44 8 47 10 1 35 99 10 Tu E ASTEE T. House-Sparrow builds. Rouen Violet 17 40 9 49 ir 1 18 100 u W Small White Butterfly Dandelion. 1!} 47 10 48 18 1 2 101 Maundy Thursday.—The name of this day is of doubtful deri- vation, but it is most probably from the old French maundiant, a beggar, for it was the Thursday of all Thursdays for him. Through- out Christian Europe it has ever been a custom on this day for even Kings, either personally or by their deputies, to distribute alms, or maundies, to the poor, and even to wash their feet, in commemora- tion of that humiliation of our Saviour, in which, on the day before his final suffering, he washed the feet of his apostles. Good Friday seems scarcely a designation so appropriate for the anniversary of the sacrifice for the sins of the world as its more ancient title of " Holy ; Eogiishmen have such a propensity to celebrate great events by some kind of eating, that they have even this fasi. These buns are a remnant of the ' Hot Cross l'Z--'i n, not only as ^ms to the poor, but to those who by s ness were kept away from the Communion Table. In the north of England a more appropriate food is prepared, in the form of a pudding of bitter herbs, among which the Passion Dock is also mingled. Easter, let us hope, is derived from the Saxon word Oster, to rise, rather than from Eostre, one of their heathen goddesses, in whose honour certain ceremonies were p
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