. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Pedestals of Dials at Enfield Old Houseand Chiswick, Middlesex. 232 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday served during our Civil War. Value could come tothe dial through its model; it could be shaped likea dial which had been possessed or designed bysome one of deserved renown. As an example letme again refer to the sun-dial pictured on page 13,which is a precise reproduction of the sun-dial of SirWalter Scott. What value this knowledge gives toit! It is a gate opening
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Pedestals of Dials at Enfield Old Houseand Chiswick, Middlesex. 232 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday served during our Civil War. Value could come tothe dial through its model; it could be shaped likea dial which had been possessed or designed bysome one of deserved renown. As an example letme again refer to the sun-dial pictured on page 13,which is a precise reproduction of the sun-dial of SirWalter Scott. What value this knowledge gives toit! It is a gate opening to us a world of historical andliterary memories. One might reproduce the dial ofGilbert White, shown on page 224. It is a bit moreornate than would seem to please Gilbert Whites veryquiet tastes. He had an interest, we know, in thingsallied to sun-dials. Read his letter upon building aheliotrope in the garden — two, indeed ; one for thesummer, the other for the winter solstice. Severalwho could own a costly dial have reproduced theQueen Marys dial at Holyrood Palace; others haveadopted it in part. I do not, in general, l
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