Tree Lupin. _Lupinus arboreus._
Dedicated to _St. Lupus_.
~July 25.~
_St. James the Great_, Apostle, A. D. 43. _St. Christopher._ _Sts.
Thea_, and _Valentina_, and _Paul_, A. D. 308. _St. Cucufas_, A. D.
304. _St. Nissen_, Abbot.
_St. James’s Day._
On this day oysters come in; by act of parliament they are prohibited
until its arrival. It is a vulgar superstition, that whoever eats
oysters on St. James’s day will _never_ want money. The indifference to
industry which such notions engender in many minds, can be testified by
some of themselves, who falsify the frivolous legend by their present
abodes in workhouses.
Apples were blessed on this day by the priest. There is a special form
for blessing them in the manual of the church of Sarum. A greater
blessing is conferred at Cliff, in Kent, by the rector there: by an old
custom he distributes “at his parsonage-house on St. James’s day,
annually, a mutton pye and a loaf to as many as choose to demand it, the
expense of which amounts to about 15_l._ per annum.”[217]
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