. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Persian races caneasily interpret messages of love indicated by flowers,and other messages can be conveyed with equalexactness. There was a day in France when aspringing Violet set at the hour of dawn on a dialsface would read, Another morn will bring to usNapoleon again ! and floral decoration might bechosen that would speak in full the lesson of thesun-dial as we each interpret it. Messrs. F. Barker& Son of London have an ornate dial-face show-ing a flower for ea
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Persian races caneasily interpret messages of love indicated by flowers,and other messages can be conveyed with equalexactness. There was a day in France when aspringing Violet set at the hour of dawn on a dialsface would read, Another morn will bring to usNapoleon again ! and floral decoration might bechosen that would speak in full the lesson of thesun-dial as we each interpret it. Messrs. F. Barker& Son of London have an ornate dial-face show-ing a flower for each month of the year. An intimate study of the floral art of Japanwould afford many suggestions for the floral designon a sun-dial, not only a study of one flower, butits grouping with other flowers and leaves, its man- 200 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday ner of growth, its age, its fixed position, and itsformal signification, — all would have bearing. Jap-anesque lines of great simplicity could be used forthe pedestal. I can fancy the distinction of such asun-dial set in an Iris garden or in front of a Floral Dial-face. F. Barker & Son, London. In the choice of a plant for supplying decorativemotives for a sun-dial in our own country, I have afancy for native American plants. Many of our com-mon flowers offer fine forms for conventionalizedornament. Let me glance from my window andchoose at random from the borders of old-fashionedflowers. Many which we fancy are native came, wediscover, from the Orient; but here is one whosename tells a tale of American nativity, while the Symbolic Designs for Sun-dials aoi plant offers also suitable forms for our use. It isthe Spiderwort, — Tradescantia Virginica, — interest-ing in our early history as being one of the first ofour plants to find a home in England, being carriedthere from Virginia by the botanical explorer, Tra-descant, before 1629. The plant perpetuates hisname and that of his father, an ingenious curio
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