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to a well-cared-for garden, planned on the 

 lines I advocate, as a well-designed sun-dial. 



It must be conceded that it serves no useful 

 purpose in these days of clocks and watches, 

 but it suggests pleasant pictures of old-world 

 gardens, and is preferable to a fountain or 

 statuary of doubtful merit. But regard must 

 be had to scale, and a ponderous dial in a 

 tiny garden will emphasise its smallness, and 

 suggest Gulliver amongst the Liliputians. 



I must omit dealing with the question of 

 setting out dials, a subject which is beyond 

 the scope of this book, and is, moreover, 

 an extensive and rather abstruse one. 



Dials may be purchased new and second- 

 hand, and, it hardly need be added, require 

 to be set out specially for each place. There- 

 fore do not buy a dial made for Bristol if your 

 garden be in the London suburbs. 



It is the column with which I am more 

 directly concerned. It may be of stone, brick, 

 cement, or wood. 



Sometimes an old stone baluster may be had 

 from the builder for the asking, and if it be 



