STATUARY, TREILLAGE AND fxARDEN FURNITURE. 



view 1 give of the Palais Royal at Brussels (111. No. 200), while illustration No. 201 

 shows how a pair of these features have been placed so as to break up a plain 

 wall surface and give character and finish to an architectural composition. Illustration 

 No. 204 gives a modern adaptation of the same idea. 



Detached columns of traditional classic design often, but not always, surmounted with 

 statuettes or graceful lead urns may be used for the same purpose, as shown in illustration 

 No. 202, which is an instance I came across in a garden at Seville, or one may be placed 

 in the centre of a formal garden to be 

 smothered in rampant roses or clematis. 

 Those readers familiar with the Pare 

 Monceau at Paris will also remember 

 what a charming effect may be obtained 

 with a classic colonnade in conjunction 

 with wild foliage and water. Some- 

 times, too, a single column may support 

 a cubical block of stone, the four faces 

 of which bear vertical sundials (111. No. 



234)' 



The sundial is a feature which 



allows of very varied treatment, and 

 there are examples of quaintly conceived 

 pedestals supporting a polyhedrical 

 block of stone bearing literally dozens 

 of dials on its various facets, each one 

 having its own particular markings 

 carefully calculated in accordance with 

 its placing in relation to the path of 

 the Sun. Such arrangements, however, 

 and also the huge topiary sundial at 

 Broughton Castle, partake of the nature 

 of curiosities or freaks, which, however 

 quaint the original examples may be, 

 cannot be repeated indefinitely without 

 destroying that interest which belongs 

 to the unique and curious. Rather 

 should we try, in this as in every 

 other garden feature, to combine use 

 with beauty and grace of form, and 

 clothe the whole with that sentiment 

 which belongs naturally to the subject 

 of so much literary verse, and which 

 has come down to us with an unbroken 

 record of usefulness from the dark ages. 



Unlike some other antiques, the 

 sundial will not usually bear removal 



from its original surroundings without losing the whole of its old-world charm and becoming 

 more or less commonplace, and it is usually therefore much better to design one to fit its 

 surroundings than to purchase one of the old examples. Again, as every position requires 

 a specially designed dial, and every degree of latitude a differently shaped gnomon, 

 once a sundial is removed, it cannot be relied upon to register correct time. 



In passing it may be explained that the time told by the sundial is Solar time, which 



Detached 

 columns. 



Sundials . 



FIG. 2O3. ACROLITHS AT EITHER SIDE OF 

 OPENING IN A NEWLY-FORMED HEDGE. 



