FLORAL DIRECTORY.

Strawberry-tree. _Arbutus._

Dedicated to _St. Brinstan_.

~November 5.~

_St. Bertille_, Abbess of Chelles, A. D. 692.

~Powder Plot, 1605.~

This is a great day in the calendar of the church of England: it is duly

noticed by the almanacs, and kept as a holiday at the public offices. In

the “Common Prayer Book,” there is “A Form of Prayer with Thanksgiving,

to be used yearly upon the Fifth day of November; for the happy

deliverance of King JAMES I., and the three Estates of England, from the

most Traiterous and bloody-intended Massacre by Gunpowder: And also for

the happy Arrival of His late Majesty (King WILLIAM III.) on this Day,

for the Deliverance of our Church and Nation.”