A Window in Arcady 
star-like blossoms open rapidly as the light fades, and 
breathe an exquisite fragrance. With the returning day 
they wither or close. 
The name campion is explained by the tradition that 
the flowers of this genus in ancient times were often used 
in chaplets prepared for the brows of champions in athletic 
games. The plant belongs to the same family as the pink, 
which in the days of old Rome was also employed as a 
garland flower, adorning even the temples of the gods. 
Among country people in England the night-blooming 
campion goes by a number of curious popular names, of 
which not the least quaint is grandmother’s nightcap, an 
appellation which has obviously been suggested by the scal¬ 
loped white petals wdiich are set like a ruffle about the 
flower’s eye. 
September 15.—The swamp lured me to-day to its 
depths again. Every man in whose veins there still lingers 
some strain of the primitive wild life of the race has a 
warm spot in his heart for the old swamp. He loves to 
trump up an excuse to go it. It may be for calamus root in 
the early spring, or to watch the red-winged blackbirds at 
their housekeeping, or for grapes in later August, or for 
the winter’s store of boneset or for a shot at a bullfrog. 
So, leading off to the swamp there is always a path, and 
into it, when one goes gypsying through the golden rod 
and purple asters of mid-September, his feet somehow, 
sooner or later, find their way; and, breaking through the 
encircling thicket, they bring him beside quiet waters where 
in the warm sunshine the white water lilies are still basking 
and shedding their exquisite fragrance. Of all flower per- 
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