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Gardens for Small Country Houses. 



FIG. 342. — TWO ROUGH-DRESSED STONES. 



to set upon a sundial, and none 

 the less fitting to be used because 

 the game seems to have come 

 with the modern child. It is at 

 least much less than a century 

 since the first reference to the 

 game of " clocks " appears in 

 literature. There is no better 



I'IG. 343— A LEAD SUNDIAL. 



place for a sundial than in a rose 

 garden, as at Marrowells, Walton- 

 on-Thames (Fig. 346), designed 

 by Mr. A. Winter Rose. In the 

 middle stands the stone figure 

 of a man. His head is bent over 



FIG. 344.— AN OLD GARDEN ROLLER IN A NEW EMPLOYMENT. the SUUdial, wllich hc holds tO 



