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The illustrations in Fig. 91 will serve as a 

 guide to the proper thing. 



Though few old dials with brick shafts exist, 

 I see no reason why this material should not 

 serve the dial-maker. If the shaft is built of 

 soft, red "cutting" bricks, as a rectangular 

 block, it may be carved into some simple form 

 as suggested in the illustration on page 268. 



The top should be of stone, to offer a good 

 bed for the dial-plate, and it should be set 

 dead level. 



In making a wooden dial shaft it is best to 

 adopt a design of open character, more suited 

 to the nature of the material. 



The sundial should be accessible, not placed, 

 as I have seen it, in the centre of a flower bed. 

 It does not do to ignore entirely its purpose as 

 a timepiece. At the centre of a group of 

 formal beds it always looks well. It may 

 also stand on grass, but in that event it should 

 be provided with a wide base, or it will lose 

 much of its architectural value. 



Most old dials are inscribed with a motto 

 — a pretty conceit well worth imitating in the 

 modern reproduction. 



Other Garden Ornaments — The fountain is 



