THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES 



Many sun-dials were made in the United 

 States in the latter half of the eighteenth 

 century, but they seem never to have been 

 an article of commercial manufacture ; 

 possibly because the varying degrees of 

 latitudes in our country made dialling so 

 difficult as to hinder the maker from get- 

 ting a just price for his work ; for each 

 degree of latitude must have a dial espe- 

 cially designed for it, otherwise the dial will 

 not keep time. Dial making in those 

 days was practised by many. They had 

 time enough to amuse themselves with 

 this gentle art, and made their own sun- 

 dials, or designed them for friends. George 

 Washington had three sun-dials. The 

 handsomest was in front of his home at 

 Mount Vernon. The dial of Mary Wash-, 

 ington "still stands in her garden at Fred- 

 ericksburg. During the nineteenth century 

 it became almost a lost art, but has recently 

 been revived. Accurate sun-dials made of 



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