DOUBLE RED 

 CAMPION. 



Liieliiiin (lifiicii,JJ. pi. 



AMPIONS are common 

 Howers, but theiv names are 

 n'miiiders oi: their once 

 noble uses. The campion 

 is the ehampion''s Hower ; 

 it was ready to hand on 

 the skirts of the wood and 

 the liedgerow when the 

 field i^ames were in pro- 

 gress, and furnished Howers 

 for the g'arland of the 

 victor in colours white and 

 red. Any one who will 

 indulge in a dream (jf by- 

 gone customs in such a 

 romantic spot as the great 

 amphitheatre of May- 

 borough, or even the ad- 

 joining Arthur's Round 

 Table near Lowther Castle, 

 will soon perceive how the handiest flowers were neces- 

 sarily promoted to honour, and it will be found, on search- 

 ing the coppice and hedgerows near by, that campions, 

 or champion-garland tlowerSj abound there. 



