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for those who are able to employ a good, old-fashioned, 



careful craftsman to execute something that will go with 



the garden, and will leave behind a pleasant impression 



of the garden-lover who took time to select and place it. 



Let us consider one or two types of sundials, before 



passing on to other architectural ornaments. To be really 



useful, any kind of timepiece 



should be in a position 



where it can easily be seen, 



and for a dial which is to be 



marked by sunlight it is of 



course important that it 



should stand in a prominent 



position, where light and 



shade play freely upon it. 



It is therefore ill-con- 

 sidered to place such objects, 

 as we sometimes see them, 

 with a view only to the 

 ornamentation of the garden 

 and without consideration of 

 the original object of the 

 dial. We now have clocks 

 and watches to tell the hour, 



but, nevertheless, it is always an interest to see that the 

 shadow-clock marks time correctly. 



Fig. 109 is perhaps not a very good one in this respect, 

 as it is so high from the ground that only a vague impres- 

 sion of the hour can be had. It originally was a market 

 cross, which for some reason or other had to be moved, 

 so a home was found for it at the end of a long vista in a 

 garden. Stone-built, standing about seventeen feet high, 

 it combines a seat below with an iron weather-vane on 

 the top, and is a suggestion for anyone who wishes to 

 rescue another such handsome stonepillar from destruction. 



FIG. no. 



