of rills and shaded hedges are ornathe pretty tribe of speedwells, particunander speedwell (veronica chamaedrys), use-ear (myosotis arvensis), the dove'sbill (geranium molle), and the red cams dioica); the first two of azure-blue, two of rose-colour, intermixing their attractive variety.

(syringa vulgaris), the barberry (ber -is), and the maple (acer campestre), lower. At the latter end of the month, hybernum) is in ear; the mountain ash uparia), laburnum (cytisus laburnum),

rose (viburnum opulus), clover (trinse), columbines (aquilegia vulgaris) with lar and fantastic nectaries, the alder rangula), the wild chervil (chorophylm), and the wayfaring tree, or wild e, have their flowers full blown. The ecies of meadow grass are now in eart's-ease (viola tricolor) shows its inttle flower in corn fields. The butterculus bulbosus) spreads over the meacole-seed (brassica napus) in corn-fields, ionia dioica), the arum, or cuckoo-pint,

in hedges, the Tartarian honeysuckle (lonicera tar-
tarica), and the corchorus Japonica, now show their
flowers.yana duten odt to his sdt sbeswa Pe
-The flow'rs that, frightened with sharp Winter's dread, aft

Retire into their mother Tellus' womb,
Yet in the SPRING in troops new mustered,
Peep out again from their unfrozen tomb:
The early violet will fresh arise,

dread,,,

Spreading his flowered purple to the skies;
Boldly the little elf the winter's spite defies.
The hedge, green satin pinked and cut, arrays;
The heliotrope to cloth of gold aspires;
In hundred-coloured silks the tulip plays;
Th' imperial flower his neck with pearl attires;
The lily high her silver grogram rears;

The pansy her wrought velvet garment bears;
The red-rose, scarlet, and the provence, damask wears.

P. FLETCHER.

The female glow-worm (lampyris noctiluca) is now seen on dry banks, about woods, pastures, and hedgeways.

The cor it is to getation

is season

done;

well kept

The marine plants which flower this month, and which are chiefly found on sea-shores and in the crevices of rocks, are, buck's horn (plantago coronopus), which flowers the whole summer; burnet saxifrage (pimpinella dioica), sea arrow-grass (triglochin. maritimum) on muddy shores; the clammy lychnis (lychnis viscaria); the cerastium tetrandrum; scurvygrass (cochlearia), sea-kale (crambe maritima) on sandy shores; the sea-cabbage (brassica oleracea), the sea stork's bill (erodium maritimum), the slender bird's-foot trefoil (lotus diffusus), the mountain fleawort (cineraria integrifolia) on chalky cliffs; and the sedge (carex arenaria) on sea shores.

The leafing of trees is usually completed in May. -See T. T. for 1818, p. 132; and T. T. for 1817, p. 155, for some lines on planting trees.

This is the season in which cheese is made; the counties most celebrated for this article are Cheshire,

Wiltshire and Gloucestershire

our 1

benefited by a cold and windy May, t to run into stalk, if the progress of much accelerated by warm weather at In late years, some sowing remains to in forward ones, the weeds should be

er.

JUNC.

Remarkable Days

In JUNE 1822.

1. NICOMEDE.

DE was a pupil of St. Peter, and was o be a Christian by his burying Felicula, = a very honourable manner. He was

ath with leaden plummets, on account of in the reign of Domitian.

2. TRINITY SUNDAY.

Bishop of Liege, first drew up an office oration of the Holy Trinity, about the out the festival was not formally admitted mish church till the fourteenth century, ontificate of John XXII.-See T. T. for 35; and The Scripture Doctrine of the iefly stated and defended,' by Rev. T. H. A., author of an Introduction to the Criand Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures. . 1738.-KING GEORGE III BORN. lowing lines from The Vision of Judgapotheosis of our late revered sovereign uthey) are introduced more as a specimen Hexameters, for the amusement of young than for any reference which they have to ing. The lines are descriptive of the soft ich the bard heard in the VAULT.

6

When there arose around a strain of heavenly music,
Such as the Hermit hears when Angels visit his slumbers.
Faintly it first began, scarce heard; and gentle its rising,
Low as the softest breath that passes in summer at evening
O'er the Eolian strings, felt there when nothing is moving,
Save the thistle down, lighter than air, and the leaf of the aspen.
Then as it swelled and rose, the thrilling melody deepened;
Such, methought, should the music be, which is heard in the cloister,
By the Sisterhood standing around the beatified Virgin,
When with her dying eyes she sees the firmament open,
Lifts from the bed of dust her arms towards her beloved,
Utters his name adored, and breathes out her soul in a rapture.

Oh, who t

Throug Like a PS And his

That one

And th

A nation

And, f

Who, tha

Of tha

*4. 1820.-HON. HEN. GRATTAN, M.P. DIED, ÆT. 74.
This great statesman and orator was born in Dublin,
where his father was an eminent barrister. He was
brought up to the same profession, but, becoming dis-
gusted with it, retired from its avocations; and, in
1775, entered the Irish House of Commons: here he
soon distinguished himself, both by his superior ta-
lents and his zealous patriotism. Throughout his
whole parliamentary career he was assiduous in la-
bouring to obtain an entire abolition of all the penal
laws against the Catholics-and, in this cause, he at
last expired. His remains are deposited in West-
minster Abbey, not far from those of PITT and Fox.
The following elegant tribute to his memory is from
the pen of the admired author of " Lalla Rookh' and
'Irish Melodies,' of the last series of which it forms
a part; it is set to a mournful but spirited air, called
Macfarlane's Lamentation.

Shall the harp then be silent, when he, who first gave
To our country a name, is withdrawn from all eyes?

Shall a minstrel of Erin stand mute by the grave,

Where the first-where the last of her patriots lies?
No-faint though the death-song may fall from his lips,
Though his harp, like his soul, may with shadows be crost,
Yet, yet shall it sound, 'mid a nation's eclipse,

And proclaim to the world what a star has been lost!
What a union of all the affections and powers,

By which life is exalted, embellished, refined,
Was embraced in that spirit-whose centre was ours,

ves Erin-or who that can see

waste of her annals, that epoch sublime—
d, raised in the desert-where he

y stand out to the eyes of all time!-
interval, snatched from the gloom
lness of ages, when, filled with his soul,
aped the dark bounds of her doom,
sacred instant, touched Liberty's goal!

r hath heard him-hath drank at the source
derful eloquence, all Erin's own,

thoughted daring, the fire, and the force,
t untamed spring of her spirit are shown-

rich-wheresoever its wave

ree and triumphant-with thoughts that shone througli, e brook's stone of lustre, and gave,

ash of the gem, its solidity too

er approached him, when, free from the crowd,

full of love, he delighted to tread

ees which a nation had giv'n, and which bowed, brought a new civic crown for his head

where-like him who, as fable hath told,

ys from his brow, that his child might come nearforgot, the most wise of the old

I that the simplest and youngest hold dear.

who hath thus, through his orbit of life,

tance observed him-through glory, through blame,

of retreat, in the grandeur of strife,

shining or clouded, still high and the same

n of all that enriches life's hour,

weetness we love and the greatness we praise, of simplicity blended with power,

with a thunderbolt only portrays ;—

ot a heart, that e'er knew him, but mourns,
eep o'er the grave, where such glory is shrined—
ument Fame will preserve, 'mong the urns
wisest, the bravest, the best of mankind!

5.-SAINT BONIFACE..

was a Saxon presbyter, born in England, called Winfrid. He was sent as a misPope Gregory II into Germany, where he any converts, that he was distinguished by the German Apostle. He was created Mentz in the year 145. Boniface was one