. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Pedestals and Gnomons 207 unless of well-studied effect and for special is ample color in the garden without addingbizarre effects in colored marble. There are charm-ing Mexican marbles, not the onyx of upholstererschoice, but red shadedmarbles of wonderfulveining. Many of ourstates have individualgranites. The exquisiteSpanish pink tint ofnatural alabaster is beau-tiful ; but I fear thatstone is too frail forout-door exposure inour climate. An exqui-
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Pedestals and Gnomons 207 unless of well-studied effect and for special is ample color in the garden without addingbizarre effects in colored marble. There are charm-ing Mexican marbles, not the onyx of upholstererschoice, but red shadedmarbles of wonderfulveining. Many of ourstates have individualgranites. The exquisiteSpanish pink tint ofnatural alabaster is beau-tiful ; but I fear thatstone is too frail forout-door exposure inour climate. An exqui-site sun-dial pillar couldbe cut from the richlytinted cream - coloredsandstone of Ottawa,which is used to sucheffect in the magnificentHouses of Parliamentin Ottawa. The beauti-ful warm red Potsdamand Ohio freestonewhich forms the adorn-ment of these houses isa glorious stone for a sun-dial; it is an allied tintto the natural alabaster. Those who have seen theperfect towers and buttresses and pinnacles of theGovernment Houses shining in the true golden lightof sunset know that heaven and earth lie very close. Simple Dial in a Worcester Garden. 2o8 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday together at such hours. With a background ofgreenery, and a choice close setting of dwarf Azaliasaround the pedestal, chosen with care, in precisely true sandstone andfreestone tints abit accented^ thesewould in the blos-soming give a colorstudy of great won-der and I should liketo see this sun-dialin winter glowingin buff and sal-mon and terra-cottalines, like a greattinted flower,against its ever-green ceramic artoffers pedestals forsun-dials. I haveseen them of terra-cotta which weresatisfactory, thoughmany are too or-nate. A very goodone, made by Messrs. F. Barker & Son, London, ison this page. They can be made of pottery, bothpedestal and dial-face, and several such have beenmade in our better potteries, with garden seats of cor-responding design. Mr. H. R. Mitchell of H
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