. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 95 WEEKLY CALENDAR. M w D D 7 Th 8:F n;s lO; Son U M 12 Tu 13 W DECEMBER 7—13, 1848. Pintailed Duck arrives, [flocks. Conception Skylai'ks in Laughing Goose an-ives. 2 SUND.^Y IN Ad'S'ENT. Gross-beak sometimes seen. Black-throated Diver aiiives. Lucy. Red-tlu-oatedDirer arrives Plants dedicated to each day. Hauy Malvaviscus. Arbor Vitas. Larch. Cedar of Goa. Alepjio Pine. Cro wded-flow'r'd Heath Afi'ican Arbor Vitfe. Sun Sun Moon R. Moon's Clock Day of Rises. Sets. and Sets. Age. aft. Sun. Year. 54 a 7 50 a 3 3 21 12 8
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 95 WEEKLY CALENDAR. M w D D 7 Th 8:F n;s lO; Son U M 12 Tu 13 W DECEMBER 7—13, 1848. Pintailed Duck arrives, [flocks. Conception Skylai'ks in Laughing Goose an-ives. 2 SUND.^Y IN Ad'S'ENT. Gross-beak sometimes seen. Black-throated Diver aiiives. Lucy. Red-tlu-oatedDirer arrives Plants dedicated to each day. Hauy Malvaviscus. Arbor Vitas. Larch. Cedar of Goa. Alepjio Pine. Cro wded-flow'r'd Heath Afi'ican Arbor Vitfe. Sun Sun Moon R. Moon's Clock Day of Rises. Sets. and Sets. Age. aft. Sun. Year. 54 a 7 50 a 3 3 21 12 8 8 342 55 49 4 41 13 7 42 343 56 49 5 59 14 7 15 344 58 49 rises. (V) 6 47 345 59 49 5 a. 31 16 6 20 346 Till 49 6 38 17 5 52 347 0 49 7 49 18 5 23 348 Conception of the Virgin Mary.—This festival was instituted by Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the eleventh century, in gratitude for the preservation of the fleet of William the Conqueror during a violent storm. Ldcy, a wealthy virgin of Syracuse, who embraced Christianity, and distributed her property among the poorer brethren of the same creed. Being accused before a heathen judge, he condemned her to death, and she was martyred on this day in the year 305. Phenomena of the Season.—We have now, says a popular writer, a full sense of the loss we sustain in the departure of the summer birds, for we feel the absence of the cheerfulness which those wanderers communicate to our woods and gardens. Among the few remaining, we see the tom-tits pendent from the mossy limbs of some tree, seeking, active though silent, their insect food, Insects.—This is the Ash-destroying beetle {By- lesimts Fraxini). It is no more than two lines DECEfti, uttering at long intervals a note low and feeble, making us the more sensible of the surrounding stillness. The nut-hatch hammering on some distant tree, and the harsh screech of the jay, more loudly dis- turb the remarkable stillness of Nature so characteristic of this period. The redbrea
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