Old Time Gardens 
Pyrenees. Pretty little cc ring-dials ” of brass, gold, 
or silver, are constructed on the same principle. 
The exquisitely wrought portable dial shown on 
this page is a very fine piece of workmanship, and 
must have been costly. It is dated 1764, and is 
eleven inches in diameter. It is a perfect example 
Portable Sun-dial. 
of the advanced type of dial made in Italy, which 
had a simpler form as early certainly as a.d. 300. 
The compass was added in the thirteenth century. 
The compass-needle is missing on this dial, its only 
blemish. The Italians excelled in dial-making; 
among their interesting forms were the cross-shaped 
dials evidently a reliquary. 
