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RM2CR1EWP–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . seem fairly crowded withpetals. And another is their wholesomeness ; theyare fresh with the primeval breath of the Michiganforests and fields. When they could have the Baltimore Belle, Icannot understand why any one planted the Bour-sault Roses, but they grew in every dooryard, alwaysby the kitchen end of the farm-house. Forty yearsago there was scarce a woodshed in New Englandbut was garlanded with the crimson Boursault Rose.It was as widely planted in its day as
RM2CR1PGF–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . oman with a Vailabout her eyes or muffled, pointing to some abouther. One of the noblest of these allegories gave threecrowns, two below and one above in the sky. Themotto was And awaits another, implying thather crowns of France and Scotland would be endedwith a crown in heaven.A homely but mostsignificant design showedthe plant Camomilegrowing in a garden; themotto, Fructus calcatadat amploSy — Trampledupon, she gives outgreater fragrance. Apanoply of war, com-po
RM2CR1WR1–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . d the earths axis once a day,the sun lagging a little behind the stars until its dayis four minutes longer, and then back again. Thisretardation of the sun makes the time as measuredby a sun-dial somewhat irregular, and a dial or clockwhich marks uniform time agrees exactly with asun-dial but four days a year. These are April15, June 15, September i, and December 24. Clock time is called mean time; sun-dial time isapparent time ; and the difference between them ise
RM2CR1B60–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . There came a timewhen, after a heavy storm, she did not appear asbidden in a gay household where preparations for awedding were under way, and where she was toweave rag carpet for the bedrooms of the bridesnew home. A kindly little tailoress, learning this,went across fields with a hand-lantern after nightfall,and entered the dark house, and climbed the narrowstaircase; a poky thing to do, and a difficult one,for the tailoress was old; a brave and Christian-likedee
RM2CR1EAK–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . its bloom. All the petals were pink and theedges and outside petals turned white as they opened. Redoute givesthe color of the LittleBurgundy as a rouge-pourpre fonce^^ which isa very good descrip-tion. He says it shouldbe cut immediately afterflowering; and I recalldistinctly that we alwayscut the withered blooms.The beautiful Bengalor China Roses I neverknew in our garden savein one form, the tinyFairy or Pony Rose.This has ever been tome one of the fully sat-isf
RM2CR1HCK–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Facet-headed Garden-dial at Unburn, Midlothian, Scotland. Sun-dial Mottoes 275 AS TRUE AS THE DIAL TO THE SUNALTHOUGH IT BE NOT SHONE UPON. And Addisons Paraphrase of the NineteenthPsalm gives these two lines : — THOU ART, O LORD, THE LIFE AND LIGHTOF ALL THIS WONDROUS WORLD WE SEE. From Shake-speares seventy-seventh Sonnet arethese hnes : — THOU BY THE DIALsSHADY STEALTH MAYKNOW times thievish PROG-RESS TO ETERNITY. Quarless Emblemsfurnish several whin-ing verses
RM2CR1W1Y–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Drawing in 14th Century Mss. of a Chilindre. shadow fell on the curved hour lines and showed thetime. Homan in his Vulgaria gave in 1520 a veryterse description of these dials, calling them in-struments like a hanging pillar with a tunge hangingout to know ye tyme of day. On this page is given a drawing from a four- Portable Sun-dials 123 teenth century treatise on the Chilindre which isnow preserved in the Arundel Mss. It is called init the travellers-dial ; full
RM2CR1J2T–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . antown, one of the fewdescendants of the Logan family. On one sideare the incised words, we must —{scil dial, />.,die-all). This clumsy joke is common on Englishdials. It appears under a mural sun-dial in theengraving of Hogarths picture of Chairing theMember. The painting had the fine motto, Pulviset umbra sumus — We are dust and shadows; wellsuited to the skull and cross-bones accompanying it.But the engraver evidently thought himself a betterhumorist than the
RM2CR1GRE–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . hould be torn 294 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday- down and lost, and even the name of the hero for-gotten. A sun-dial has ever been an appropriate memorialgift to a college as well as a useful fitting for a collegewall. Many remember a sun-dial on one of the build-ings at Harvard University; but it has vanished under improving hands.And there was a splen-did sun-dial of unusualsize and beauty at Wil-liams. Hawthornewrites of the interest hehad in it when he sawit
RM2CR1XDA–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . iginal shapeand decoration, except in one or two cases. Those who wish to learn of the antique dials ofGreece and Rome and of other rare forms of Englishand Continental dials should read Mrs. GattysBook of Sun-dials^ or its enlargment by Mrs. Eden. How I love those large still books, said Tenny-son of one of Richardsons novels. Such a book isMrs. Gattys Book of Sun-dials. Like the sun-dialitself it seems associated with refined and serenethings: the ivy-grown wall
RM2CR1G8G–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . beplaited and intermedled in maner of nosegaies one withanother; or set in ranks and rowes one by another ; whetherthey be knit and twisted cord-wise and in chain-work ofone sort of flowers, either to wind and wreath about achaplet, bias, or in fashion of a circle, or whether they besorted round into a globe or ball, running one throughanother, to exhibit goodly sight and entire uniformity of acrosse garland. By which words it may be plainly seen that thoughthere w
RM2CR1EA8–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . herine Mermet, but richer,and of finer foliage, and colored beyond all other Roses, noteven excepting Gloire de Dijon. It is hardy in Tennessee;here in New York I dare say it would not live out. Oldbushes give the best flowers, and those which opened onthe very edge of the forest were always finest of all. Theheart was variable but generally creamy pink with goldensuffusions. The outer petals run between deep red bronzeand copper-yellow. It was, I think, one of the
RM2CR1WR4–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . ill like to construct one, but can-not understand the application of any rules such asthose of Leadbeater or Ferguson, I will give plainrules for making a horizontal dial, worded by H. R.Mitchell, Esq., of Philadelphia, though he disclaimsall originality in their construction and phrasing.They seem to me perfect in their simplicity andexactness of information, and with the attached Fig-ures I, 2, and 3, must be readily understood; andwhen these are grasped, I am su
RM2CR1NXP–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Obelisk-shaped Dial in Garden at Linburn House, Midlothian Scotland. The Sun-dial as an Emblem 173 faded tawny hair would ill consort with the carnationsatin when compared with the darker locks of theScottish queen, who, I doubt not, tried it onagain and again in process of making. Mary received from another source four hanksof gold thread and moulds and needles for rais-ing, which was the heavily embossed anddifficult embroiderymuch in vogue in herday. A splendid
RM2CR1RXW–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Universal Ring-dial, with DiscAxis. Portable Sun-dials 139 position proper for the month of the year, as shownon the table of months marked on the axis. Anotherform of ring-dial is on the opposite page. Three full-sized figures of interesting ring-dialsowned by Mr. Evans is given on this page. One. Three Brass Ring-dials. is a brass ring-dial 2^ inches in diameter, madeabout 1760 by Proctor, and inscribed: — Set meRight Use meWell And ITime tell Number 2 is a small
RM2CR1EAX–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . autiful middle-aged Rose, the LawsonRose, is wonderfully satisfying. One of the first ofits plants was set in the Manning garden, in Salem,where all flowers prosper, and, above all, all Roses.Its pink is not like that of the Anne de Diesbach,but is equally beautiful. There was a White Rose of the old garden whichwas to us nameless, a June Rose of fullest bloom,and greatly beloved. We called it simply TheWhite Rose, never confusing it with the MadamePlantier. It sen
RM2CR1JRA–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Cross at Northampton, England. 0.^6 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday on a board, and each dial was to have a gnomonaffixed, which would then show the time of the dayat the places named. The size and shape of each. Pillar-dial in Graveyard at Dean Row, Cheshire, England. gnomon is carefully given. This would form asplendid triumph in gnomonics. Some familiar mottoes are seen on many dials.They are certainly common, and some are common-place, but they are suited to t
RM2CR1NRK–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Washington Sun-dial. still retained in old English families ; among themare the Stafford knot and the Pelham buckle. The introduction of a coat-of-arms or crest upona dial gives it at once an emblematic value, and stillmore, a personal value. On this page is shown an ancient dial-face, 7/hichis of much interest to all patriotic Americans, because N 178 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday it bears a dated Washington coat-of-arms, which isbelieved to have furnished the
RM2CR1M6M–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . th rams heads and swags of fruits andflowers. Perhaps the camera may be held at fault,but certainly these Four Seasons seem dumpylittle goddikinesses. An appropriate pedestal for a substantial dial in abusy town is standing in the enclosure of the gas-works, northeast corner of Twenty-third and Marketstreets, Philadelphia. It was originally erected by theMarket Street Bridge Company, at the western ap-proach of the bridge, as a memorial to those engagedin the const
RM2CR1M7M–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . al home.The grounds are much the same as during thenaturalists life. In the meadow is his shiveringAspen ; and on the green his Sycamore. The brickwall which he built still bears the tablet and date,G. W., 1761. His favorite walk still stretches itsnarrow brick pathway over The Hanger. Surely, 224 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday the sun-dial and tortoise must be still here ! Thelawn is glittering with sunshine so the aged tortoisecannot be seen, but here is the su
RM2CR1NEP–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . a close bor-der of the four cycle symbols each recurring thirteentimes. Within this were the signs of the month. The Aztec symbol for the year and the month isequally beautiful and appropriate ; the former havingin the centre their emblem of the sun, with a strik-ing border of the designs for the eighteen months ;while the Aztecmonth was di-vided in simi-lar manner intodays. These arewithin the com-pass of anyskilled designerand workman,either in brass-engraving or
RM2CR1YT3–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . t is pic-tured opposite this page. The bronze Triton whichserved as a weather-vane has vanished, but eightsculptures remain. These bold flying figures repre-sent the winds, and under each was once a sun-dial.There was also a water-clock. As the tower wasforty feet in height and twenty-seven in diameter, itformed a striking object. Boreas, the North wind,blew on a conch-shell; the South wind poured rainfrom a water-jar; Zephyrus carried a mantle filledwith flowers.
RM2CR1M7W–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Bronze Dial-face at Yaddc, Saratoga, New York ; Country Seatof Spencer Trask, Esq. in the Rose garden at Yaddo, near Saratoga, NewYork, at the country seat of Spencer Trask, Esq.The dial is like an antique table, supported by twocarved figures. It is an exact copy of a beautiful. Pillar-dial at Old Place, Lindfield, England; Seat of Charles E. Kempe, Esq. Pedestals and Gnomons 223 carving excavated at Pompeii, and it was made forMr. Trask by express permission of t
RM2CR1RPG–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . n-dials and Roses of Yesterday Brockenhurst, New Forest, shown on a later page.Another is at Clumber, the home of the Duke ofNewcastle, and still another at Holland House.The shadow of the nodule on the axis falls on the inside of the circularband, which is elaboratelylettered and numbered,often in gold. Thisgreat armillary sphere,seen against the greenbackground of trees ina beautiful garden, is amost noble sight. I havealways longed to have inmy library a splendi
RM2CR1CAJ–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Dragon Gnomon. Even after the death of both minister and infidel,the widow of Dr. Holmes, simply through herhorror of an infidel and a suicide, could keep herson silent as to his love for the daughter of such aone, though he loved the girl far too well ever toheed thought of another sweetheart during all thoseyears. The twain had had one long and untram-melled talk after ten years of silence ; it could scarcebe called a lovers scene, though he told her that heloved
RM2CR1YN7–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . h be-sides the houres of all kinds diversely expressd. Amongst whichvery many Dialls, especially the Most Curious are new Inventionshitherto Divulgd to none. All these Particulars are Shortly yettClearly sett forth for the common good. — Title page of The Explication of The Diall Set up in the Kings Garden, An. i66g. Father Francis Hall. F DIALS we may form twoclasses, portable and fixed.Portable dials have in thisbook a special chapter ; as doalso noon-marks or me
RM2CR1THR–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Two Boxwood and One Ivory Shepherds-dials. The markings and Hnes are carefully shown withexact directions for making them. The gnomon iscalled in this treatise a style or indicator, and couldbe made of copper, of silver with a bit of lead meltedon it; it worked on a pin fastened in the lid. 124 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday In the museum at Naples is the oldest portabledial known, and it is an adaptation of the chilindre.It was found at the excavations made in H
RM2CR21F0–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . pure Rose perfume. ALICE MORSE EARLE. October, igo2,Brooklyn, New York. Sun-dials and Roses ofVesterday CHAPTER I THE CHARM AND SENTIMENT OF SUN-DIALS *A Dial is the Visible Map of Time, till Whose Invention twasfollie in the Sun to play with a Shadow. It is the Anatomie of theDay and a Scale of Miles for the Jornie of the Sun. It is 4:he silentVoice of Time and without it the Day were dumbe. ... It isye Book of ye Sun on which he writes the Storie of the Day.Lastl
RM2CR1RRE–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . silver pocket-dial with compass,made by Le Maire inParis two hundred yearsago. When a plummetis added, this is deemedby modern dial-makersthe best of all the pocket-dials, for use by soldiers,colonists, and travellers.It is so hinged that it can be folded very flat andthin, and takes but small space in the pocket. Thenames of various towns with their latitudes are given,and the arm is so marked that the proper angle forthe dial-face is easily found. The choicest si
RM2CR20DB–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . f the only inmate of the library.And a very good motto it seemed to the dial-maker,and the Benchers also, after it was put up. In the eighteenth century dials were an article ofcommon manufacture in America, though I thinknever in large numbers. Seldom do we find themnamed in old tradesmens lists. I have seen fifty-eight different articles enumerated in one pewtererslist, but sun-dials were not among them. Perhapsthe fact that each dial was limited in its sphere —c
RM2CR1NRP–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . these mystical religions are found nowin our Christian churches. Such are the rose-window,the altar and candles. CHAPTER VIII SYMBOLIC DESIGNS FOR SUN-DIALS How beautiful your presence, how benign.Servants of God, who not a thought will shareWith the vain world ; who outwardly as bareAs winter trees, yield no fallacious sign. — EccleJastical Sketches, XIX, William Wordsworth. HE old Emblem writer, Geof-frey Whitney, noted withseverity, as we have withsympathy, that
RM2CR1NW4–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . e-venge. Frederick Cornaro, Bishop of Padua, had as adevice a Rose with this sun-dial motto : Una diesaperitj conficit una dies, — One day opens, one dayends it. This seems to me perhaps a bit fancifulfor a sun-dial, save for one designed especially withthe thought of the life of a day — such as one witha floral design. Another personal emblem or device existed frommediaeval days, and was known as a badge. A crestdiffered from a badge in that the former was wornonl
RM2CR1W63–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Ingeniose Diallers 107 also shows the greatdialler with a similarblock of dials in hishand. All this cer-tainly proves the as-sertion that it is themost remarkable por-table dial in existence,and cordial thanks aredue to Mr. Evans forgiving knowledge andsight of it to us all. Hegge describesKratzers dial at Cor-pus Christi thus : — In this beautifulAlter (on w^h Art hassacrificed such Varietieof Invention to the De-itle of the Sun) aretwelve Gnomons, theSuns fellow
RM2CR1NEK–. 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
RM2CR1BN1–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . s 443 There were women weavers, too, in plenty, andMistress Johns joined their number. She soon ex-celled them all in quality and quantity of her work,and therefore had work in plenty. I suppose it washer silence as well as her singular habit of stoppingwhen at her work, andsitting for hours mo-tionless, which soongave her the name ofbeing a witch. It oftenangered the housewiveswhen they were in ahurry for a piece ofhomespun for the boyswinter garments, to seeher s
RM2CR1J48–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . many to whom thoughts of death and solemnwarnings and dread of hell were as the breath oflife. A skull and hour-glass further decorate thisdial. Fortunately it bears on another face thebeautiful and appropriate words, Tempus ut umbrapreterit — Time passes by as a shadow ; and alsothat dignified but most common of all dial mottoes,Ut hora sic vita — Life is as an hour. I own a handsome brass sun-dial about a toot indiameter which bears the date 1748, and these lines
RM2CR1PD5–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . lled Scottish castles which were her prisons;working at the slit-like gun-windows of her laterdungeons ; working by the scant firelight so grudg-ingly supplied her; working by the dim and tinycruisie of her day, or by waxen tapers ; and oftenworking with that wonderful cheerfulness which seemsto have been God-given to her. She found, I trust,the comfort which every good needlewoman has indoing good needlework. Yet howsoever Sorrow came or wentShe made the needle he
RM2CR1R5C–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . months ago in purchasing a metal dial dated 1624,which was described to me in so extraordinarily andminutely accurate a mannerthat I felt sure I had se-cured a chalice-dial; butupon opening the packagea horizontal dial was seenin which the lines and nu-merals had been cut upona pewter plate or shallowporringer, and the so-calleddate, 1624, on the base was,I fear, simply a tradesmansmark. Thus was added French Sun-diai. another to the many disappointments of a colle
RM2CR1RTJ–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . gilt-brass, butvary decidedly in construction, and form quite astudy. The one with raised standard with plummetis dated 1578, and is made by Alexius Schneip. Theother on same page is dated 1553.It will be noted that all the manyportable dials printed in this bookhave each some peculiarity of con-struction : no two are alike, manyare unique, no others are known,and nearly all are here made publicfor the first time. They merit afuller description, but any accurateacc
RM2CR1HCG–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Cross-dial in West Laurel Cemetery,Philadelphia. The Sun-dial as a Memorial 281 Cemetery, Philadelphia. Itis in a neglected spot, muchgrown up with shrubbery, andis seldom noted by passers-by.This form of dial is particu-larly suited to a churchyardor a cemetery ; for the formof a cross should not be usedlightly. I would not care tosee a cross-dial in a garden,though several English clergy-men have them. Rev. R. W. Essington haserected several cross-dials: oneat Sh
RM2CR1KET–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . re readilyto the power of association. Let your dial be madefrom stone taken from some historic or memorablespot. For instance, a pedestal was cut in stonetaken from the field of the battle of Bennington.In that battle took a prominent part a sturdy oldfarmer from what is now Vermont. His part wasprominent—not that he was an officer, but he wasa soldier of such exalted enthusiasm and belief in his cause; he was so fear-less, so enduring, so bold,though he was seven
RM2CR1BKK–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . f quotation and comparison, and showsthereby goodly reading, though she lives six milesfrom the village library, and two of these six milesare private ways, one mile a driftway through thefields, and never broken out in winter by the town.Winter is, of course, her only reading time. I notedin her house a surprising number of magazines andweekly papers, possibly not of the latest dates,which matters little — far more magazines, I amsure, than are read by the city dw
RM2CR1R5N–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . number of pocket sun-dials. Finger rings were made with tiny compass anddial with a hinged cover. One was sold in NewYork two years ago, with an accompanying descrip-tion saying that the gnomon was made of human hair which had grown on thehead of Bonnie Prince Charlie.It was suspected to be of verymodern manufacture. Thereare several of these rings at theBritish Museum. A dial of unusual shape is inthe National Museum atWashington ; itis given on thispage. The make
RM2CR1CAA–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . flour, deemed reasonably palatableby hungry brothers. When roasted like coffee,acorns made an excellent drink, and a sour mashof acorns afforded whiskey, since even saints musthave that comfort. Substantial houses were built at Ephrata, — Brother Houses and Sister Houses ; a pecu-liarity of them was their construction without iron.Wooden pins were used everywhere instead of nails.In cabalistic and Rosicrucian teachings iron wasthe product of the powers of darkness.
RM2CR1FM4–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . brain, which was its special function —the cinnamon being deemed in great degree chasingoff the megrims. CHAPTER XV THE EMBLEM OF THE ROSE IN ENGLISH HISTORY Round every flower there gleams a glory.Bequeathed by antique song or story ;To each old legends give a nameAnd its pecuhar charm proclaim. *<The Rose doth deserve the chiefest and most principall placeamong all floures whatsoever ; being not only esteemed for hisbeautie, vertues, and his fragrant smell, bu
RM2CR1JN3–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . ton Lewis. 250 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday formal gardens, and there is a certain type of gardenwhich promises the presence of a sun-dial. It isimpossible to formulate a description of such a one,nor can you give any details by which to know of the treasure within.Sometimes the slightesthint will suggest thepresence of a sun-dialto you ; sometimes youhave an inspiration. Iwas driving along a LongIsland roadj on the out-skirts of a long-settledvillage, when we
RM2CR20YH–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . ot a singleword of my thought of a sun-dial: — **Gray dial-stone, I fain would know What motive placed thee hereWhere darkly opes the frequent grave And rests the frequent bier ;Ah, bootless creeps the dusky shade Slow oer thy figured plain :When mortal life has passed away Time counts his hours in vain. ** I think of those that raised thee here. Of those beneath thee laid.And ponder if thou wert not raised In mockery oer the dead.Ah, never sure could mortal man, W
RM2CR1EX1–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . its uprootal from many a garden because itsmells to heaven. The Harrison Rose is by tra-dition named to commemorate a political event, theelection of the first President Harrison. We never gathered the yellow Roses, for two rea-son : their frail petals dropped so quickly that theywere valueless, and their spiny armament was toodefensive for ordinary attack. It seemed to showthat they were never intended to be picked. As forthe Persian Yellow—there was a third reaso
RM2CR1WKN–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . loo Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday centre and draw from it three semicircles marked £, i^, andG. The outer circle, £, is to have a radius of 6 inches,the next circle, F^ a radius of 5| inches, and the circle G aradius of 5 inches. Then draw three similar semicircles. Figure 6. having D for a centre. C and D must be li inches apart.Between the circles E and F you can draw in small marksthe lines for the hours, half-hours, quarters, and minutes,while between FG you
RM2CR1KF0–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Sun-dial in Wall of BlackFriars Burial-ground, Perth. Pedestals and Gnomons 231 bronze arm wielding a hammer, a splendid piece ofwork. It fairly speaks to you of his grandfather,the fighting blacksmith, of the certainty of the blowswith which he made his way through life, conquer-ing Time because he fearlessly and cheerfully filled it with honest and ^ . dignified work. Another dial-pillar has a ten-derer message: itislaidincementofsea-worn stonesof nearly uniforms
RM2CR1TER–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Wooden Block Dial, with Paper Figures; 1780. Portable Sun-dials 131 dials of various kinds to use in his lectures on dial-ling. An interesting one of his inventions is shownon a succeeding page. The astrolabe was well known in Persia, Arabia,and India at an early day. Originally the word was. Brass Equinoctial Dial. applied rather vaguely to any flat circular instrumentused for observation of the stars ; then it was re-stricted to the kind called the astrolabe plan
RM2CR1NRW–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . nges. It contains a systemof philosophy deduced from eight hexagrams whichwere copied from the lines on the back of a tortoise.Each represents some great power in nature, as fire,water, earth, etc. It is also regarded as a calendarof the lunar year. So important are the lessons ofthis book, so great is its wisdom, that Confuciusdeclared that could a hundred years be added to hisHfe he would devote them all to its study. A most suitable and perhaps the most dignifie
RM2CR1M63–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Sun-dial from Admiralty Garden. Pedestals and Gnomons 221 Tempora pratereunt; nunc sol nunc umbra vicissmPratereunt; super est ecce perennis amor, TIME FLIES, SUNS RISE AND SHADOWS FALL LET TIME GO BY. LOVE IS FOREVER OVER ALL. The words Perennis Amor are illustrated by abrooding pelican in bronze surmounting all. The. Sun-dial at Yaddo, Saratoga, New York; Country Seat ofSpencer Trask, Esq. 222 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday pillar itself is raised on a high blo
RM2CR1GXE–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . at indignity if no one rode out withthe traveller. Sometimes a great party would goon horseback several miles on the way. Doubtlessthe countess parted with her mother by the way-side, after some visit which one had made to theother. The stone table for the alms still stands, but isconcealed in the picture by the ugly protecting fence.The present rector of Appleby Church was askedwhether the alms was still given, and answered, Idhear from it if it wasnt. Another ten
RM2CR1WKD–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . you; then you notequickly that the gnomon is a brass or iron barstanding at right angles to the dial-face, upon whichare marked correctly lines and numerals for a ver-tical dial for that latitude. Though this dial withits absurd stick of a gnomon had been erected forsome years, I persisted in inquiring until I learnedthat the dial had been made in London, and on itsway hither the gnomon was lost; so the house archi-tect made a new one, and the man added: Itdoesnt m
RM2CR1B5B–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . 3 9031 01764847 8 g-ab7r. The Authors Friend to the Booke.
RM2CR20YJ–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . face on RemsenStreet — an unusual expanse for city streets. Inthose gardens and around the church there lived inour crowded city, from early spring till midwinter,with life as free as in his native wilds, a great whitecockatoo, who had escaped from some South Amer-ican ship as it lay at the wharf under the Heights.Hiding in the trees in the daytime, and perhaps inthe church tower, he tapped at friendly windowsat night, like a white-winged ghost, confident of thewel
RM2CR1TE4–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . served. Hewas painting a dial on the schoolhouse wall whenFerguson saw him, and soon taught the eager farm-laddie algebra, astronomy, and dialling. With work-ing in a mill, painting portraits, drawing designs for embroidery, making clocks anddials, Ferguson soon was asbusy as Cantley. The yearspassed, and suddenly Fergusonhad made his name as a writer,lecturer, and inventor in gno-monics. He invented in 1766a Universal Dialling Cylin-der, by the use of which allkin
RM2CR1CAP–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . may,want it said of me by thosewho know me best, that Ialways plucked a thistle,and planted a flower whereI thought a flower wouldgrow. It was not given toJohn Holmes to plucksuch a great Thistle asslavery, nor to plantthe flower of libertythroughout the land; heliterally gave simple garden Roses, roots and seedsand cuttings, wherever he thought a Rose might beloved or should grow. There was no doubt, so said the neighbors whoknew him from childhood, that this curi
RM2CR1MTX–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . 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 beauty.And I should liketo see this sun-dialin winter glowingin buff and sal-mon and terra-cottalines, like a greattinted flower,a
RM2CR1NTK–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . d, yet nevertheless present. The Sun-dial as an Emblem i8i This subtle interest exists in very commonplaceobjects ; we feel it in sign-boards, in sign-posts orguide-boards ; let us see why. Whence is the wordsign ? Think of the very word, and you have thekey to the secret—and to the interest. I neverwearied in weeks of researchabout sign-boards, hangingsigns, for my book, Stage-Coach and Tavern Days, sim-ply because they had thatinexplicable charm. I nevercease to
RM2CR1Y4C–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Cresset Stone and Dial on Lewannick Church, Lanceston, England. 68 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday Lux del vltce viam monstrat Sed utnbra horam atque fidem docet. THE LIGHT OF GOD SHOWETH THE WAY OF LIFE,BUT THE SHADOW BOTH TELLETH THE HOUR AND TEACH-ETH THE FAITH. The picture speaks to me many words besidesthose of its motto. It makes me think of theaged philosopher, Rowland G. Hazard, the most. Sun-dial at Santa Barbara Mission, California- Classification of Sun
RM2CR1RT8–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Brass Portable Dial,V. S., 1572. 146 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday FAC DUM TEMPOS OPUS, Work while it is day.HANY ANAEPEI XP0N02, The sun brings all things.NULLA DIES SINE LINEA, No day without its line.O KAIPOS OIKETAI, The moment passes. Such dials are very rare, especially in this size, about7^ inches in length. It is a portable dial, not apocket-dial, as are most of these examples. A very unusual block-dial is owned by Mr. Evansand shown on page 133. It was
RM2CR1DN7–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . ses of Yesterday flower. The garden of King Midas, who turned allto gold that he touched, was filled with Roses of sixtypetals; the Peruvian Eve of the Garden of Edensinned not for plucking an apple but a Rose; andthe Mexican Eve also gathered a Rose. Into the beautiful symbolic his-tory of the Cross I willnot enter. It is a hiero-gram of even greaterantiquity than the Rose.All persons of sensi-bility, as the old novel-writers said, have acurious and persistentinte
RM2CR1CC4–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . despair and intense religious ex-altation, he finally settled into open infidelity. Hehad studied, too, to be a minister, and had brokendown his health and his hope and his trust by thatfierce struggle for an education of one who workshis way through a New England college. Hehad had an interval of renewed hope and confi-dence in God, in which interval he married ; but thedeath of his wife at the birth of Mercy once moreunsettled his faith, and left him the prey of
RM2CR1PGB–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . enuity and scientific accuracygive it an educational value which is not to be measured bythe roughness of the results obtained. This card-dial, calculated for the latitude of Lon-don, was patented by James Ferguson in 1759, ^^ apparently was soldin large numbers.It was on a card 4Jinches by 3 inches,with a tiny greensilk cord as amarker. This couldbe carried in apocketbook. It hasbeen republishedin this country, forthe latitude of NewYork, by a true dialler, Captai
RM2CR210B–. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . for seasons, and for days, and for years. And let them be for lights in the firmament of theheaven, to give light upon the earth; and it was so. And the dial was so also; the trunks of the treeswere gnomons, there was light, there was motion,there were shadows, and therefore there were sun-dials. As Charles Lamb said of a dial, Adamcould scarce have missed it in Paradise. Certain inanimate objects have a semi-humancloseness to us. I do not by this refer to objectsw