ENGLISH GARDENS OF i6th, 17TH AND i8th CENTURIES 231 



It belongs to a type known 

 as " facet-headed dials," and 

 has about twenty different 

 facets or sides, some orna- 

 mented with heart-shaped 

 sinkings, others hollowed out 

 and with gnomons, others 

 again containing the royal 

 arms with the collar and badge 

 of the thistle. 



A comprehensive record 

 of English gardens of the 

 seventeenth and eighteenth 

 centuries may be found in the 

 engravings of Kip, Badeslade, 

 Atkyns, Dugdale, Switzer and 

 others. In these realistic bird's-eye views of 



SUNDIAL AT HOLYROOD. 



SUNDIAL AT WREST, BEDFORDSHIRE. 



country seats we are able 

 to form a good 

 idea of the num- 

 ber of import- 

 ant gardens that 

 existed during 

 this period, and 

 get a vivid im- 

 pression of the 

 care and intelli- 

 gent interest then 

 being taken in 

 garden design. 

 Unfortunately 

 they also afford 

 evidence of the 

 losses this coun- 

 try has sustained 

 owing to the van- 

 dalism of suc- 

 ceeding ages. 



