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a dial constructed for the locality in which they live. 

 But why not? Surely your garden ornament has at 

 once a greater interest. If you write to F. Barker 

 and Son, of Sun-Dial House, Clerkenwell, London, and 

 give the locality for which the dial is required and its 

 size, you can have an accurate timekeeper for very 

 little money, either in brass or stone; and on it can 

 be inserted any motto you wish. Out of the six 

 hundred mottoes I have written and published in my 

 book of sundials, I would like to select two, good 

 reader for your consideration : — 



" Like the flowers, ever try 



To catch the sun ere it go by." 



" O, swift are the wings of a swallow, 

 And the vibrating sound of a chime, 

 But nought has been born that can follow 

 Such a thing as a moment of time." 



Sundials and Roses; of course the two are almost 

 inseparable, and our happiest hours that too soon be- 

 come memories are resuscitated by the sundial and the 

 pot-pourri jar from the past. 



There are so many garden ornaments that are 

 suited to the Rose garden that I hesitate to specialise. 

 Go to T. Crow^ther & Sons, of Northend Road, West 

 Kensington, and see their wonderful collection. You 

 can positively get anything you want, from garden 

 gates to a bird-bath. I know of no greater selection 

 in the United Kingdom, and certainly not at their 

 prices. Lovely well-heads, statuary, and fountains, 

 lead figures, dials, and vases of every description fill 

 their store, and he who could not frame a suitable set- 

 ting for the Queen of Flowers from there would indeed 

 be hard to please. The enthusiast must not think that 

 my pen has run riot, for it has not; and, although this 

 chapter deals only indirectly with the Queen of 

 Flowers, yet I consider it to be of real importance, 

 for flowers, like human beings, must have a home, and 

 the best is only realised in happy surroundings. A 

 friend of mine once showed me his Roses ; they were 



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