374 Old Time Gardens 



cent Y. Bowditch of Boston, Massachusetts. A 

 facsimile of this dial was also placed before 

 the Manor House on the island of Naushon by 

 Mr. John M. Forbes in memory of Dr. Bowditch. 

 The lines run thus : 



WITH WARNING HAND I MARK TIMERS RAPID FLIGHT 

 FROM LIFE'S GLAD MORNING TO ITS SOLEMN NIGHT. 

 YET, THROUGH THE DEAR GOD's LOVE I ALSO SHOW 

 THERE'S LIGHT ABOVE ME, BY THE SHADE BELOW. 



A sun-dial is to me, in many places, a far more in- 

 spiring memorial than a monument or tablet. Let 

 me give as an example the fine sun-dial, designed by 

 W. Gedney Beatty, Esq., and shown on page 359, 

 which was erected on the grounds of the Memorial 

 Hospital at Morristown, New Jersey, by the Society 

 of the Daughters of the American Revolution, to 

 mark the spot where Washington partook of the 

 Communion. 



What dignified and appropriate church appoint- 

 ments sun-dials are. A simple and impressive bronze 

 vertical dial on the wall of the Dutch Reformed 

 Church on West End Avenue, New York, is shown 

 on page 346. The sun-dial standing before the rec- 

 tory of Grace Church on Broadway, New York, is 

 on page 364. 



There is ever much question as to a suitable 

 pedestal for garden sun-dials : it must not stand so 

 high that the dial-face cannot be looked down upon 

 by grown persons ; it must not be so light as to 

 seem rickety, nor so heavy as to be clumsy. A 



