GARDEN ACCESSORIES 265 



taken by stepping-stones, which always look 

 well and are unconventional. 



The Sundial In these days of clocks and 

 watches it cannot be claimed that the sundial 



Fig. 90. Bridges 



serves any useful purpose as a time-keeper. 

 Yet I know of no accessory which adds more 

 charm to the garden picture. It is a link with 

 a past age, when stately crowds, silk-coated and 

 daintily gowned, roamed the garden pleas- 

 aunce, careless of the flight of time. An old 

 writer says: " Sundials are pleasing and vener- 

 able garden decorations, arid should be placed 



