FLORAL DIRECTORY.
Two-coloured Heath. Erica bicolor.
Dedicated to St. Samthana.
December 20.
St. Philogonius, Bp. of Antioch, A. D. 322. St. Paul, of Latrus, or Latra, A. D. 956.
THE BATH SEASON.
Mr. Foster’s [letter], inserted on the [17th instant], occasions the seasonable recollection, that this is the time when, in fashionable language, “every body” goes to Bath.
According to fabulous history, the virtues of the hot springs at Bath, were discovered long before the christian era, by Bladud, a British prince, who having been driven from his father’s house because he was leprous, was reduced like the prodigal son to keep swine. His pigs, says the story, had the same disease as himself; in their wanderings they came to this valley, and rolled in the mud where these waters stagnated; and healed them. Whereupon prince Bladud, attaining “to the height of this great argument,” tried the same remedy with the same success, and when he became king, built a city upon the spot—the famous city of Bath.