. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. THE COTTAGE WEEKLY CALENDAR. M i:! U 15 w I> SEPTKMBER. IH-in, 1849. Plants dedicated to each day. Sun Rises. Sun Seta. Moon n and Sets Moon's Age. Clock bcf. Sun. Day of Year. i M. Tu. W. Eldov-lmmes riioo. Holy Cross. Vaii'ouror moth seen. [low. 15 S. AFT. Trin. Lime leaves yel- Lambert. [rmclies in flocks. George L and 11. landed. Gold- Ember Week. Dotterel arrives. Saffron Crocus. Passion Elower. Byzantine Meadow Saffron. Sea Starwort. [low. Naxrow-leaved Mai- Drooping Starwort. DevU's-bit Scabious. 33 a. 5 85 07 3S 40 41 43 18a.
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. THE COTTAGE WEEKLY CALENDAR. M i:! U 15 w I> SEPTKMBER. IH-in, 1849. Plants dedicated to each day. Sun Rises. Sun Seta. Moon n and Sets Moon's Age. Clock bcf. Sun. Day of Year. i M. Tu. W. Eldov-lmmes riioo. Holy Cross. Vaii'ouror moth seen. [low. 15 S. AFT. Trin. Lime leaves yel- Lambert. [rmclies in flocks. George L and 11. landed. Gold- Ember Week. Dotterel arrives. Saffron Crocus. Passion Elower. Byzantine Meadow Saffron. Sea Starwort. [low. Naxrow-leaved Mai- Drooping Starwort. DevU's-bit Scabious. 33 a. 5 85 07 3S 40 41 43 18a. 0 IG 14 12 9 7 5 1 2(i 2 38 3 53 sets 6 a 44 7 'J 7 34 20 37 28 2 â i 11 4 32 4 53 5 14 5 35 5 50 0 17 250 257 258 259 200 201 202 » nutting Holy Cross Day was the anniversary of a festival, instituted about the year 6l 5, to celebrate the recovery by the Emperor Heraelius of what the Roman Catholics believe was a fragment of the cross on which our Saviour suffered. It had been seized by Cosroes, King of Persia, when he plundered Jerusalem. The day was called Roodmass dai/ by our Sason ancestors, rood being their name for the cross ; and this will serve as a solution to our readers of the names of some of our churches, and one of their constituent partsâHoly-rood iind Rood-loft. The latter was the place in or near the roof where the cross or rood was kept when not required for exhibition to the vota- ries. It was a rustic custom for all the young village on this festival; and, as their gambols in the wood ' terized by the sternest virtue, this proverb preserved by "poor Robin" " The devilâas the common people say- Doth go a nutting on Holy-rood ; September IStii.âA well-known observer of our seasons. Dr. Forster, has recorded, as a result of long experience, that in at least six years out of seven the weather is fine on this day. Lambert, or Lanoebert, was bishop of Maestricht; and although giving him no title to a place in an English almanac, yet
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