THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES 



shine upon it. If it does not tell the time 

 it misses its purpose. 



A fault that many pedestals have is an 



excessive height, which forces a person of 







small stature to look upon the dial face 

 with difficulty, yet one of the charms of 

 this bit of garden accessory is the delight 

 that it gives children. The writer recalls 

 with what awe as a child he approached the 

 first sun-dial of his experience. It seemed 

 so mysterious, this sentinel of light, that it 

 made a lasting impression in which the 

 garden figured as a little fairy world. 



A sun-dial is divided into two parts, the 

 dial face and the gnomon, or style, that 

 projects at an angle from the face and 

 marks the time by the shadow it casts. 

 Its upper surface must form an angle with 

 the dial that shall be the same number of 

 degrees as the degree of latitude for which 

 the suri-dial is made. For example, it 

 must form an angle of forty-two degrees 

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