American homes and gardens . HE accompanying illus-tration depicts a livingsun-dial which may beseen in the grounds ad-jacent to one of the well-known castles in Lanca-shire, England. A well-trained yew-treeconstitutes the pin of the dial; the closelyclipped box the Roman figures. Thissun-dial has now been growing for nearlytwo hundred years, having been plantedin March, 1732. This fact is marked onthe dial by clipped box in the samemanner as the Roman figures. The outercircle denotes the hours, while the innerone denotes the quarters. The correctnessof this dial compares favorably withthose o
American homes and gardens . HE accompanying illus-tration depicts a livingsun-dial which may beseen in the grounds ad-jacent to one of the well-known castles in Lanca-shire, England. A well-trained yew-treeconstitutes the pin of the dial; the closelyclipped box the Roman figures. Thissun-dial has now been growing for nearlytwo hundred years, having been plantedin March, 1732. This fact is marked onthe dial by clipped box in the samemanner as the Roman figures. The outercircle denotes the hours, while the innerone denotes the quarters. The correctnessof this dial compares favorably withthose of modern construction. An inter-esting development of the clipped yew-tree so characteristic of English A Living Sun-dial October, 1906 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 249 Mushroom-culture in France By Jacques Boyer IHE tourist who for the first time visits the erect the public buildings of Paris, from a labyrinth of low southern and western plains of the suburbs and narrow chambers in which the workmen can scarcely of Paris is sure to be puzzled by certain quad- move about without stooping. rangular wooden towers which he perceives But the more modern exploitations, of which the accom- here and there rising out of the ground, and panying engraving gives a faithful picture, consists of spacious what still more excites his curiosity are the galleries, of which the roof is supported by strong pillars clouds of smoke that occasionally ascend from these strange carved out of the rock itself. 1 [ere the mushroom-cultivator structures, which are scattered over waste grounds, cultivated exercises his somber profession at his ease. The peg-ladder fields and gardens. These structures, however, do not
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