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SUNDIAL MATERIALS - Page 8

It is an interesting sundial, easily constructed and not common. It makes a splendid accent or focal point in the garden or on the lawn, where there is little interference from nearby buildings and trees. It can easily be adapted to standard time and used as a heliochronometer.

THE HORIZONTAL sundial (Figure II) This is the common variety sold in the stores and found in 99 and 44/100 % of the gardens. It lends itself easily to freedom in pedestal design and decoration of the sundial Figure, which can be as elaborate as the owner chooses. In order to be at all satisfactory as a timekeeper it must be figured for the locality in which it is to be placed. Whensituated in an open spot in the garden or on the lawn it will tell time from sunrise to sunset throughout the year. Like the equatorial sundial, it may be used as a focal point. Although it is usually wise to place a sundial where it will receive full sunlight all day, the lower left photograph (B) facing page 47, shows the attractive effect gained by placing the sundial at the south edge of a border of trees, where the sunlight filters through the outer branches, and the edge of the shadow of the gnomon is glimpsed by the constant play of light and shadow across the sundial Figure.

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