One of these gentlemen informs me that the _Anthologia_ is quoted at p. 280. of Dr. Forster's work on the Atmosphere: London, 1823. My {569} second correspondent writes to say, "If you can procure the _Circle of the Seasons_, by Dr. Forster, published in 1830, you will there find very copious extracts from the books in question." Before we go any farther I would ask, _is_ Dr. Forster the author of this book? The copy I have met with in a public library is anonymous, and is thus entitled: _The Circle of the Seasons, and Perpetual Key to the Calendar and Almanac_: London, Thomas Hookham, 1828, pp. 432. 12mo. It is a valuable book, and forms a complete Catholic Floral Directory. Though the _Anthologia_ and the _Florilegium_ are lavishly quoted, no references are given save the bare names. It is easy to see why Mr. Weale, the "compiler" of the _Catholic Florist_, declined giving the information requested. The quotations in question are all _second-hand_ from the _Circle of the Seasons_. The very preface of the _Florist_ is not original; the most valuable part of it (commencing at p. 11.) I have discovered to be a verbatim reprint from _The Truthteller_, or, rather, from Hone's _Every-Day Book_, vol. i. pp. 103. 303., where some extracts are given from the contributions to this periodical from a correspondent with the signature _Crito_. These quotations in Hone first drew my attention to _The Truthteller_, and I advertised for it, but without success. It was edited, I believe, by Thomas Andrews. I have met with the second series of this periodical, published in London in 1825, and I should be glad to get the whole of it.[1] In Forster's _Perennial Calendar_, London, 1824, the _Anthologia_ is quoted at pp. 101. 108. 173. 211. 265. 295.: one of these passages is requoted in Hone, vol. i. p. 383. I may here remark that this work of Hone's is furnished with a _Floral Directory_. I feel rather piqued, both on my own account and for the honour of "N. & Q.," at being baffled by two English books, and I am somewhat surprised that thirty years should have elapsed without any inquiry having been made respecting the remarkable quotations adduced by Dr. Forster. The Queries I now propose are: Who was the compiler of the _Circle of the Seasons_? Are the _Anthologia_ and the _Florilegium_ quoted in any works previous to Forster's time? EIRIONNACH. P.S.--Can I get a copy of the _Catholic Friend_, which is referred to in the preface of the _Catholic Florist_ as a scarce and valuable work; and also a copy of the _Catholic Instructor_: London, 1844? March, 1854.