THE AMERICAN GARDEN 



will a posed sun-dial be interesting enough when 

 it is arrived at to justify a special journey and 

 four kept-up paths which cut my beautiful grass- 

 plot into quarters?" 



With that she changed her mind a thing 

 the good gardener must often do and ap- 

 pointed the dial to a place where one comes upon 

 it quite incidentally while moving from one 

 main feature of the grounds to another. It is 

 now a pleasing, mild surprise instead of a tame 

 fulfilment of a showy promise; pleasing, after all, 

 it must, however, be admitted, to the toy-loving 

 spirit, since the sun-dial has long been, and 

 henceforth ever will be, an utterly useless thing 

 in a garden, only true to art when it stands in an 

 old garden, a genuine historical survival of its 

 day of true utility. Only in such a case does 

 the sun-dial belong to the good morals of gar- 

 dening. But maybe this is an overstrict rule 

 for the majority of us who are much too fond 

 of embellishments and display the rouge and 

 powder of high art. 



On the other hand, we go to quite as much 

 pains to say that though a garden may not lie 



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