. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. THE COTTAGE GABDENER, 207 WEEKLY CALENDAR. M w D D 8 Th. 9 F. 10 S. 11 Sun. U M. 1:3 Tu. U W. FEBRUARY 8â14, 1849. Small Eft seen in ponds. Wild Goose, or Grey Lagg, goes. Q. Victoria Mab. 1840 Sea Curlew goes, Sexagesima Sun. House Pigeon lays. Primrose flowers. Partridge pairs. Valentine. Golden-erested Wren sings. Plants iledicated to each day. Narrow Spring Moss, Roman Nai-oissus. Mezereous. Red Primrose. Common Hepatica. Polyanthus. Yellow Crocus. Sun Sun Moon R. Moon's Clock Day of Rises. Sets. and Sets. Age. bef. Sun. Year. 29 a. 7 V 6 a. 30
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. THE COTTAGE GABDENER, 207 WEEKLY CALENDAR. M w D D 8 Th. 9 F. 10 S. 11 Sun. U M. 1:3 Tu. U W. FEBRUARY 8â14, 1849. Small Eft seen in ponds. Wild Goose, or Grey Lagg, goes. Q. Victoria Mab. 1840 Sea Curlew goes, Sexagesima Sun. House Pigeon lays. Primrose flowers. Partridge pairs. Valentine. Golden-erested Wren sings. Plants iledicated to each day. Narrow Spring Moss, Roman Nai-oissus. Mezereous. Red Primrose. Common Hepatica. Polyanthus. Yellow Crocus. Sun Sun Moon R. Moon's Clock Day of Rises. Sets. and Sets. Age. bef. Sun. Year. 29 a. 7 V 6 a. 30 15 14 30 39 27 2 7 48 16 14 31 40 26 4 8 07 17 14 32 41 24 6 10 3 18 14 32 42 22 7 U 8 19 14 31 43 20 9 morn. 20 14 30 44 18 11 0 11 21 14 28 45 Sexagesima (Latin for suctietli) is always the second Sunday be- fore Lent; and is so called, because about sixty days before Easter Sunday. Valentine was a Christian priest, martjTed at Rome about the year 270 ; and there is not a knouTi passage in his history entitling iiim to preside over love letters, or to be the namesake, on this day, of every lover in Christendom. Chance alone appears to have raised him to the dignity. The anniversary of his martyrdom happening on this day, during which the idolatrous Romans celebrated their feast of Lupercalia, when our early Christian bishops established a festival to supersede it, for the recreation of their early converts, this was held on Valentine's day of commemoration. Now, one of the amuse- ments, or ceremonies, of the Lupercalia, was putting the names of young women into a box, from which the young men drew them, as chance directed. Instead of the names of young women, the Christian pastors had the names of saints put into a bos on this day ; and â whichever saint a man or woman drew, was to be his or her patron for twelve months, or until the next St. Valentine's day. Drawing sweethearts, however, was too pleasant a recreation to be entirely superseded; and though the young convert
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