The Garden Magazine, November, 1921 



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of the older sun-dials were square. With so much choice the 

 shape may be made to suit one's individual taste, laying out 

 the divisions as already explained and extending the radial 

 hour-lines to touch the base line. 



The sun-dial should be mounted in a horizontal position, pre- 

 cisely north and south along the line A-Xll, with twelve o'clock 

 at the north. It is best to have a surveyor come and stake out 

 the line across the space where the sun-dial is to be, and then 

 whenever needed in construction a string can be stretched be- 

 tween the stakes to give the direction. 



ONE of the most popular treatments is to mount a small 

 bronze sun-dial upon a pedestal, and very charming effects 

 can be had with this arrangement in the proper setting. The 

 pedestal may be a rough block of stone or an ornate column 

 of cut stone or concrete. It may stand on a close-clipped lawn, 

 effective in its simplicity, or it may rise out of a planting of 

 low shrubs. Endless are the variations. 

 A skilful gardener can make a sun-dial of more than passing 



notice with low-growing border plants on a level place on the 

 lawn, using a white-painted post to support the end of the slop- 

 ing gnomon, which corresponds to the top edge of the style. 

 At Dodge City, Kansas, where standard time changes from 

 central to mountain time, there were one summer, two sun- 

 dials on the lawn at the station, one for each time, made with 

 very low plants for all the lines and numerals. 



Every sun-dial needs must have its motto. Mrs. Gatty's 

 "Book of Sun-dials" with sixteen hundred or more mottos 

 collected from far and near affords a wide choice. Sombre 

 most of them affect to be, significant of the inexorable march 

 of time, remindful of the Reaper with his rusty scythe; but in 

 some a happier theme breaks through the apprehensive gloom, 

 and some undaunted spirit boasts of counting "only the sunny 

 hours." 



Old things we have in plenty, but few to vie in interest 

 with the sun-dial come out of shadowy antiquity to grace 

 our gardens and guide us through the sunshine of all too swiftly 

 flying hours. 



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THE DIAL TELLING OFF SUNNY HOURS IN THE HOME GARDEN OF 

 "THE GARDEN MAGAZINE" 



Built to withstand the insidious encroachments of time and the inclement attacks of frost and 

 heat this simple, massive dial is impressively set amid Cedars and arbored Roses. The old 

 printers' marks and a facsimile in bronze from the Gutenberg Bible, the first book ever printed, 

 are not only historically significant but make a beautifully patterned surface as weil 



