The fogs of England have been at all times the complaint of foreigners. Gondomar, the Spanish ambassador, when some one who was going to Spain waited on him to ask whether he had any commands, replied, “Only my compliments to the sun, whom I have not seen since I came to England.”--Carraccioli, the Neapolitan minister here, a man of a good deal of conversation and wit, used to say, that the only _ripe fruit_ he had seen in England were _roasted apples!_ and in a conversation with George II. he took the liberty of preferring the _moon_ of Naples to the _sun_ of England. * * * * * _On seeing a_ LADY _walking in the_ SNOW. I saw fair JULIA walk alone, When feather’d rain came softly down, ’Twas JOVE descending from his tower, To court her in a silver shower, A wanton flake flew on her breast, As happy dove into its nest, But rivall’d by the whiteness there, For grief dissolv’d into a tear, And falling to her garment’s hem, To deck her waist, froze to a gem. * * * * * FLORAL DIRECTORY. Lesser Periwinkle. _Vinca minor._ Dedicated to _St. Victor_. ~February 27.~ _St. Leander_, Bishop, A. D. 596. _St. Julian_, _Chronion_, and _Besas_. _St. Thalilæus._ _St. Galmier_, or _Baldomerus_, A. D. 650. _St. Nestor_, A. D. 250. _St. Alnoth._ _St. Thalilæus._ This saint was a weeper in Syria. He hermitized on a mountain during sixty years, wept almost without intermission for his sins, and lived for ten years in a wooden cage. _St. Galmier._ Was a locksmith at Lyons, and lived in great poverty, for he bestowed all he got on the poor, and sometimes his tools. An abbot gave him a cell to live in, he died a subdeacon about 650, and his relics worked miracles to his fame, till the Hugonots destroyed them in the sixteenth century. _St. Alnoth._ Was bailiff to St. Wereburge, became an anchoret, was killed by robbers, and had his relics kept at Stow, near Wedon, in Northamptonshire. TIME. ‘Time is the stuff that life is made of,’ says Young. “BEGONE _about your business_,” says the dial in the Temple: a good admonition to a loiterer on the pavement below. The great French chancellor, d’Aguesseau, employed _all_ his time. Observing that madame d’Aguesseau always delayed ten or twelve minutes before she came down to dinner, he composed a work entirely in this time, in order not to lose an instant; the result was, at the end of fifteen years, a book in three large volumes quarto, which went through several editions. * * * * * FLORAL DIRECTORY. Lungwort. _Pulmonaria Officinalis._ Dedicated to _Leander_. ~February 28.~ _Martyrs to the Pestilence in Alexandria_, 261, &c. _St. Proterius_, Patriarch of Alexandria, 557. _Sts. Romanus_ and _Lupicinus_. _Sts. Romanus_ and _Lupicinus_.