THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES 



bronze are now quite inexpensive. So are 

 simple, dignified pedestals of composition 

 stone. 



The writer will not here go into the art 

 of dial leaking, but refers the reader who 

 may wish to study this subject further, to 

 a delightful book by Alice Morse Earle, 

 " Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday," a 

 book that gives many practical sugges- 

 tions, and teetos with quaint and deep 

 sentiment. 



In the chapter on the charm and senti- 

 ment of sun-dials she writes : 



" But the sun-dial is a thing of deep sentiment. 

 All feel the beauty and wonder of the thought that 

 Time, the most intangible, most fleeting, most 

 wonderful of conditions, is marked so fittingly in 

 its passing by a shadow almost equally intangible ; 

 and that the noblest evidences of creation the 

 stars in the heavens would be to us invisible and 

 unknown save for their revelation through the 

 shadow of the earth. Thus are great truths re- 

 vealed to us, not by great Light but by Darkness 

 a lesson of Life." 



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