THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES 



and twenty-one minutes if the dial is to 

 tell the time in Boston, Massachusetts. 

 Of course the accuracy of the dial as a 

 timekeeper depends on other fixed rules. 

 The spacing of the hour marks must be 

 carefully computed for different latitudes, 

 and the gnomon should point to the true 

 north, the north star, and the whole dial 

 should be absolutely rigid and level. 



It is an interesting fact that in the early 

 part of the eighteenth century some of the 

 coinage of the United States was stamped 

 with a design of a sun-dial that bore these 

 inscriptions : " Fugio " and " Mind your 

 business," and this led to its being called 

 the " Fugio Currency." There was the 

 Fugio note, the Fugio cent and the Fugio 

 dollar. The cent w r as also called the- 

 Franklin cent because of Benjamin Frank- 

 lin's connection with the coinage. The 

 motto " Mind your business " is of English 

 origin, and is said to have originated in the 

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