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Old Time Gardens 
the mother of George Washington, still stands in 
Fredericksburg, in the grounds of Mr. Doswell. A 
photograph of it is reproduced on page 369. The 
fourth historic dial is on page 37.1. It is the one 
at Kenmore, the home built by Fielding Lewis for 
his bride, Betty Washington, the sister of George 
Washington, on ground adjoining her mother’s 
home. A part of the garden which connected these 
two Washington homes is shown on page 228. 
These three American sun-dials afford an interest- 
ing proof of the universal presence of sun-dials in 
Virginian homes of wealth, and they also show the 
kind of dial-face which was generally used. Another 
ancient dial (page 350) at Travellers’- Rest, a near-by 
Virginian country seat, is similar in shape to these 
three, and differs but little in mounting. 
In Pennsylvania and Virginia sun-dials have lin- 
gered in use in front of court-houses, on churches, 
and in a few old garden dials. In New England 
I scarcely know an old garden dial still standing 
in its original place on its original pedestal. Four 
old ones of brass or pewter are shown in the 
illustration on page 379. These once stood in 
New England gardens or on the window sills of old 
houses; one was taken from a sunny window ledge 
to give to me. 
Perhaps the attention paid the doings of the 
American Philosophical Society, and the number of 
scientists living near Philadelphia, may account for 
the many sun-dials set up in the vicinity of the 
town. Godfrey, the maker of Godfrey’s Quadrant, 
was one of those scientific investigators, and must 
have been a famous “ dialler.” 
