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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
On the dial of tlie same date at Ox- 
ford is this motto: 
“A moment — mark how small the 
space 
The dial shows upon its face; 
Yet waste but one and you will see 
Of how great moment it may be.” 
That dials were in use in this coun- 
try long before the . Revolution is 
shown by the number of them found 
in Virginia, two of them connected 
with the family of our first president. 
The sun-dial which formerly stood in 
the garden of Mary Washington, the 
President’s mother, at Fredericks- 
burg, now is to be found in the same 
town, but on different grounds — those 
of Mr. Darwell. A dial-face of metal, 
ten inches in diameter, which was in 
place before the entrance door of 
Mount Vernon, in Washington’s day, 
was given to l\Ir. William F. Flave- 
meyer, Jr., of New York, by Mr. Cus- 
tis. At Kenmore, is the dial in the 
garden of Betty Washington, the 
president’s sister. 
One sees, in the same state, now 
and then, a dial in an old-fashioned 
garden, or on the front of a court 
house, or church, but they are few 
and far between. 
It is sometimes thoug'ht that only 
a garden on a formal and very large 
scale affords a dignified setting for a 
dial, but we are finding out that even 
the small, unpretentious garden can 
give room and proper surroundings 
to a dial which is in keeping with its 
surroundings. The Italian form of 
garden recpiires perhaps a more elab- 
orate dial and a more artificial set- 
ting, while a less pretentious one is 
often more satisfactorily placed in the 
sweet old-fashioned surroundings of 
English or American gardens. 
A sun-dial may be as costly as 
one’s purse will allow, or it may be 
had for twenty dollars or less, if one 
buys it of composition, ready-made, 
or if one of the family is clever 
enough to make it the expense is trif- 
ling, as often wood for the pedestal 
is in the shed or field stones close 
at hand. 
Harmony with its surroundings 
should be considered in choosing the 
design and material, the pedestal be- 
ing really the part open to ornamen- 
tation. A pedestal of carved bronze 
or marble is seen to best effect in an 
exposed position in the formally-laid 
out garden, sometimes on a terrace or 
a slight elevation of ground, or at 
the crossing of several paths. 
But the old-fashioned garden filled 
with masses — not too closely trained 
— of larkspur, hollyhock, Canterbury 
bells, spice-pinks and the other old 
sweet flowers, are a fitting background 
for a simpler dial, a Colonial effect, 
DIAL MARJCING CROSS W.\I.KS AND BACKED BY PERENNIAL BORDER. 
A SUN DIAL ON THE LAWN IN THE ROGERS GARDEN. 
‘‘Let others tell of storms and show 
ers; 
I only count your happy hours.” 
Henry Van Dyke contributes the 
following beautiful sentiment: 
"Time is 
Too slow for those who wait. 
Too swift for those who fear. 
Too long for those who grieve. 
To short for those who rejoice. 
But for those who love 
Time is eternity.” 
As early as the year 300 of the 
Christian era, dials were in use in 
Italy, whose people, with the inventive 
genius which they have bequeathed 
to their descendants, excelled in dial- 
making, a cross-shaped form being 
peculiar to them. In the thirteenth 
century a compass was added and the 
dial was a portable one. 
On the cathedral of Geneva is a 
beautiful carved figure of an angel, 
holding a dial. Carved figures hold- 
ing dials are a common feature of 
cathedrals on the Continent. 
One of the oldest English examples 
of sun-dials is a vertical one. over 
the door of Kirkdale Church, Rydale, 
and is semi-circular in shape, "While 
not dated, it is believed to have been 
put in place during Edward the Con- 
fessor’s reign. It bears this motto: 
‘‘This is the day’s sun maker at every 
hour, and Hayward made me and 
Brand the Priest.” 
At Holyrood Castle is a historic dial 
bearing the royal arms, the thistle and 
the monograms of Charles the First 
and the French Henriette Marie. A 
sun-dial which has been in constant 
use since 1690, is in the garden at 
Hampton Court, at the end of Queen 
Mary’s Bower, which blooms every 
spring with lilac, thorn and laburnum. 
