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Old Time Gardens 



garden at Ascott, the seat of Mr. Leopold de Roths- 

 child (opposite page ioo.) These are curious rather 

 than beautiful, but display well that quality given in 

 the poet's term "the tonsile Box." 



Sun-dial in Box at Broughton Castle. 



Writing of a similar sun-dial, Lady Warwick 

 says : — 



" Never was such a perfect timekeeper as my sun-dial, 

 and the figures which record the hours are all cut out and 

 trimmed in Box, and there again on its outer ring is a le- 

 gend which read in whatever way you please : Les heures 

 heureuses ne se comptent pas. They were outlined for 

 me, those words, in baby sprigs of Box by a friend who is 

 no more, who loved my garden and was good to it." 



