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The garden and its accessories (1907)

Underwood, Loring · Boston, Little Brown, and company · leaf 102

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it, otherwise the dial willnot keep time. Dial making in thosedays was practised by many. They hadtime enough to amuse themselves withthis gentle art, and made their own sun-dials, or designed them for friends. GeorgeWashington had three sun-dials. Thehandsomest was in front of his home atJNIount… … A Japanese Sun-dial THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES bronze are now quite inexpensive. So aresimple, dignified pedestals of compositionstone. The writer will not here go into the artof dial making, but refers the reader whomay wish to study this subject further, toa delightful book by Alice ^lorse…

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