. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 85 WEEKL? CALENDAR. M D D NOV. 30—DEC. 6, 3 848. Plants rtedicated to each day. Sun Rises. Sun Sets. Moon R. and Sets. Moon's Age. Clock aft. Sun. Day of Year. 30 Th. St. Andrew. 45 a 7 53 a 3 8 14 5 10 58 335 1 t' Trees everywhere leafless. Dark-flower'd Stapelia. 47 52 9al8 6 10 36 336 2 a Pipistrelle Bat last seen. Lemon-color'd Deodorum. 48 52 10 25 7 10 13 337 3 Sun Advent Sunday. Tirusallian Spurge, [berry. 49 51 11 35 2) 9 49 338 4 M [cieties' Meetings Prickly Barbadoes Goose- 51 51 mom. 9 9 24 339 5 Tu Linnean and Hort
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 85 WEEKL? CALENDAR. M D D NOV. 30—DEC. 6, 3 848. Plants rtedicated to each day. Sun Rises. Sun Sets. Moon R. and Sets. Moon's Age. Clock aft. Sun. Day of Year. 30 Th. St. Andrew. 45 a 7 53 a 3 8 14 5 10 58 335 1 t' Trees everywhere leafless. Dark-flower'd Stapelia. 47 52 9al8 6 10 36 336 2 a Pipistrelle Bat last seen. Lemon-color'd Deodorum. 48 52 10 25 7 10 13 337 3 Sun Advent Sunday. Tirusallian Spurge, [berry. 49 51 11 35 2) 9 49 338 4 M [cieties' Meetings Prickly Barbadoes Goose- 51 51 mom. 9 9 24 339 5 Tu Linnean and Horticultural So- Long-stalked Hybiscus. 52 50 0 48 10 8 59 340 6 W Nicholas. Nest-flowered Heath. 53 50 2 3 11 8 34 341 St. Andrew, the younger brother of St. Peter, and the first of the Apostles who came to Christ, suffered martyrdom about the year 69, on a cross shaped like the letter X, and hence known as the St. Andrew's cross. Part of this instrument of death, and other relics of this apostle were believed to have been brought to Scotland in 369, and deposited in a church standing where now is the city of St. Andrews. The celebrity of the relics led to the adoption of the apostle as the tutelary saint of Scotland. Nicholas, the tutelary saint of virgins, boys, sailors, and parish- clerks, was made bishop of Myra, in Syria, by Constantine the Great. In connection with a miracle alleged to have been wrought by him in bringing to life two murdered children, there was annually on this day an election at Salisbury of " The Boy ; Phenomena of the Season.—In the neighhourhood of Win- chester the last leaves of the black mulberry fell on the I5th of November; and the night of that day was the coldest we have ex- perienced this year, the thermometer fell to 17 degrees, w^hich is 15 degrees below the temperature at which water freezes. The Insects.—The bulbs of the daffodil and of other -siiecies of the narcissus frequently refuse to vege- common crimson fuchsia,
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