Old Time Gardens 
The sun-dial does not lure to “idle dalliance.” 
Nine-tenths of the sun-dial mottoes tersely warn you 
not to linger, to 
haste away, that 
time is fleeting, 
and your hours 
are numbered, 
and therefore to 
“ be about your 
business.” In a 
single moment 
and at a single 
glance the sun- 
dial has said its 
lesson, has told 
its absolute mes- 
sage, and there 
is no reason for 
you to gaze at it 
longer. Its very 
position, too, in 
the unshaded 
rays of the sun, 
does not invite 
you to long com- 
panionship, as 
do the shady 
lengths of a per- 
gola, or a green 
orchard seat. 
Sun-dial in Garden of Grace Church Still, I Would 
Rectory, New York. ever have a gar- 
