THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES 



Old England will not keep time in New 

 England. The angle of the shadow will 

 not be right. 



/ Sun-dials were the only time-keepers 

 known for centuries before clocks and 

 watches were invented. Sun-dial time is 

 called Apparent time and clock time Mean 

 time, and the difference between the two 

 is known as the equation of time. A sun- 

 dial and a clock will not agree absolutely 

 except at four different periods of the year, 

 for a few days in the middle of June, the 

 middle of September, December and March. 

 At these periods we have the typical days 

 of the year, the longest days in June, the 

 shortest in December, and the twelve-hour 

 day in September and March when the 

 sun rises and sets at six o'clock. At all 

 other times the clock is either a few minutes 

 faster or a few minutes later than the Ap- 

 parent time. But this fact should not 

 brand a sun-dial as useless. It is not to be 



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