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Old Time Gardens 
garden at Ascott, the seat of Mr. Leopold de Roths- 
child (opposite page ioo.) These are curious rather 
than beautiful, but display well that quality given in 
the poet’s term “the tonsile Box.” 
Sun-dial in Box at Broughton Castle. 
Writing of a similar sun-dial, Lady Warwick 
says : — 
u Never was such a perfect timekeeper as my sun-dial, 
and the figures which record the hours are all cut out and 
trimmed in Box, and there again on its outer ring is a le- 
gend which read in whatever way you please : Les heures 
heureuses ne se comptent pas. They were outlined for 
me, those words, in baby sprigs of Box by a friend who is 
no more, who loved mv garden and was good to it.” 
