DEDICATION OF FLOWERS.

The monks, or the observers of monkish rules, have compiled a Catalogue

of Flowers for each day in the year, and dedicated each flower to a

particular saint, on account of its flowering about the time of the

saint’s festival. Such appropriations are a _Floral Directory_

throughout the year, and will be inserted under the succeeding days.

Those which belong to this and the eighteen preceding days in January

are in the following list:--