. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. THE COTTAGE GARDENER, WEEKLY CALENDAR. M D w D JULYaCâAUGUST 1,1849. Plante dedicated to each day. .Sun Rises. Sun Sets. Moon R. and Sets. Moon's Age. Clock bef. Sun Pay of Year. Til St. Aune. Grayling butterfly seen. Wild Cbamoraile. 17 a. 4 56 a. 7 11 6 7 6 11 207 27 b' Blackcap's song ceases. Purple Loosestrife. 18 54 11 32 3 6 11 208 â -it. s Aclaniral butterfly seen. Mountain Groundsel. 20 53 morn. 9 6 10 209 â¢-'ij Sl-N f^ S. Ai'T. TiUN. Common gi-asshop- Red Chironia. 21 51 0 0 10 fi 9 210 Mil, M \\ heat out. [per chirps. White MuUein. 22 50
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. THE COTTAGE GARDENER, WEEKLY CALENDAR. M D w D JULYaCâAUGUST 1,1849. Plante dedicated to each day. .Sun Rises. Sun Sets. Moon R. and Sets. Moon's Age. Clock bef. Sun Pay of Year. Til St. Aune. Grayling butterfly seen. Wild Cbamoraile. 17 a. 4 56 a. 7 11 6 7 6 11 207 27 b' Blackcap's song ceases. Purple Loosestrife. 18 54 11 32 3 6 11 208 â -it. s Aclaniral butterfly seen. Mountain Groundsel. 20 53 morn. 9 6 10 209 â¢-'ij Sl-N f^ S. Ai'T. TiUN. Common gi-asshop- Red Chironia. 21 51 0 0 10 fi 9 210 Mil, M \\ heat out. [per chirps. White MuUein. 22 50 0 33 11 6 7 211 ::|!tii Iloary Ragwort flowers. Great Midlein. 24 48 1 1) 12 6 4 212 1 w day. Swallow's2ndbroodflcdgecl.|!Stramomum. IV VII 1 55 13 0 1 213 1 the mother Sr. Anne is I^elieved by Roman Catholics to have bee (if I he \"ii;^iii Ulary, anrl that her husband was Joachim, ul" St. Anne yMary and Sobe) they also believe to have been the inoaiLTs i-eypc-ctivoly of Salome (Mark xv. 40), and of Elizabeth, the mother of St. John the Baptist. The Monday after St. Anne's day is celebrated at Newbury, in Berkshire, as Mace Mondaij. The principal dishes of the festival are beans and bacon ; and a procession is made, with a cabbage for a mace, and other mock substitutes for the insignia of civic dignity. Lammas Day is one of the four "cross quarter days," of which Whitsuntide, Martinmas, and Candlemas, are the other three. In Scotland, generally, and in some other parts of Great Britain, rents are payable upon these festivals, Mas is the Saxon for a festival, and htaf\& a loaf, or bread, in the same language. Now, as this day is called kalam-mas in the Saxon chronicle, and we know that bread made of new wheat was otfered by our forefathers at this time as a kind of first fruits, we are led to believe that the day was ori- ginally celebrated as a day of thanksgiving for the blessings of harvest, and was literally the bread festival, or halaf-u
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