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given for the dial’s setting. It may be planted with 
vines, or stand unornamented ; it may be set low, 
and be looked down upon, or it may be raised high 
up on a side wall; but wherever it is, it must not 
be for a single minute in shadow ; no trees or 
overhanging shrubs should be near it ; it is a child 
of the sun, and lives only in the sun’s full rays. 
In the lovely old garden 
at the home of Frederick 
J. Kingsbury, Esq., at 
Waterbury, 
Conn., is a 
Old Brass and Pewter Dial-faces. 
sun-dial bearing the motto, u Horas non numero nisi 
serenas ,” and the dates 1739— 1751, — the dates of the 
building of the old and new houses on land that has 
been in the immediate family since 1739. Around 
this dial is a crescent-shaped bed of Zinnias, and 
very satisfactory do they prove. This garden has 
fine Box edgings ; one is shown on page 173, a 
Box walk, set in 1851 with ancient Box brought 
from the garden of Mr. Kingsbury’s great-great- 
grandfather. 
The gnomon of a sun-dial is usually a simple 
