CHAPTER XX

A STORY OF FOUR DIALS
"It was intimated to me by divers Worthy Persons as a thing very Expedient that an Explication should be published of the Severall Dyalls here contayned ; They judged very Expedient a Declaration thereof should be sett forth."
"A Brief Explication of the Pyramidicall Diall Set up in his Majesties Private Garden at White Hall, July 24, 1669."
— FATHER FRANCIS HALL.
LL difficulties in the path of the collector, the one who is carried away by the cacoethes colligendi, the rage for collect- ing rather than love of the things collected, add only to his zeal and his delight. Let me then invite his attention to sun-dials, especially if his searches and wanderings be laid in America ; for I know no other antique object which is so difficult to find and secure. A friend who is an experienced collector of ancient china, pewter, brass, and such small wares, who knows all the devious ways of collectors and collecting, tells me that in the four years during which her attention has been placed upon the collecting of sun-dials, she
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has never acquired one. Nay, more than that, she has never seen an old sun-dial in all that time, though her summers are spent in an alert watch in farm-houses or in country lanes and byways ;
and her winters in fre- quent prowlings among antique shops.
My Four Dials.
So, therefore, the story of the country acquisition of the four dials shown on this page may prove in- teresting to collectors, albeit they are no extraor- dinary tales, but simply accounts of happy wanderings in summer days through the country-side of my beloved New England. The smallest dial came to me through my friend, Addy Dean. I have known this friend about six years ; the acquaintance sprang into intimate knowledge and correspondence at first breath, albeit it came about in a most informal man- ner.
" There's a girl about two mild down the road as has got old traps to sell," answered a New England farmer, whom we hailed in his field. He had
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come to the roadside willingly, but he imparted his information unwillingly, being bent instead on determined inquiry about us, our identity, our bourne, and our errand* We had answered him patiently, recurring ever to our queries about " old
blue crockery- ware, old and- irons, pewter por- ringers, and maple bureaus." "What is her name ? " we asked briskly, meaning to drive on and trust to fortune and some one else to find "the girl." "Ye drive down the road to the school- house; then turn to the left and go to a big Oak tree ; go down that lane and turn in on the River Road to a driftway — " Isn't there a straighter road ? ' we interrupt. There was a straighter and simpler way, of course ; country folk delight in complicated instructions for reaching a destination. " You'll know her when you see her ; she's about my age. We went to school together." Of his age ! He might have been
Shield-shaped Vertical Dial. Made by John S. Bailey.
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sixty or eighty or a hundred, as he leaned on his hoe ; for his face was so streaked with layers of dirt and honest sweat of the brow that he seemed not to have been born and grown in human manner, but to be formed in geological strata. The Dean Farm proved to be remote indeed from the road, — so isolated that from it no other house could be seen, though there were neighboring farm-houses in sheltered hollows and behind near woods. A silence like that of the enchanted palace in the story of the Sleeping Beauty lay upon the house as we drove into the dooryard in the hot sunlight ; every door and window was closed and even locked ; no farm " beasts " were around, no friendly cackle of hens and rooster was heard, no bark of dog, no sign even in the air of the ever present hog. A vigorous pounding on the door-knocker wakened, as in the fairy tale of old, the sleeping kingdom. A great dog bounded around the house corner ; a brood of chickens followed their disturbed mother from the barn-yard ; from a tiny window in an ell came the voice of the princess, " Here's the key," and it fell from the window at our feet. " Go in and see things," she added, in cheerful welcome. It is one of the surprises of New England farm-life that the woman who is housekeeper and houseworker, be she wife or, as in this case, sister, can have time in the afternoon for a comfortable nap. She needs it, of course, having risen early and worked hard ; the wonder is that she gets it. From the barn-doors appeared the princes, -- the Dean boys, — who had evidently been napping too, on the hay. They
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gave one glance at us, returned to the barn, and reappeared with a wooden peck measure half full of pears, offered to us with the princely hospitality of a New England farm that gives to you the best of whatever it has. In this splendid "dish of pears" I discovered to my de- light that most luscious of all pears, the Flem- ish Beauty, which I had not seen for years. Two great trees of the vari- ety grew in our garden. They were of most vig- orous growth, and the fruit of extraordinary perfection. The Flem- ish Beauty is liable to a curious warping and splitting, turning black in these splits and in mottled spots, and thus not becoming over in- viting in appearance,
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Sun-dial on Ely Cathedral: "The Lantern."
though its flavor scarcely injured thereby. Our Flemish Beauties never were split or spotted or blackened; and in looking back upon their growth I can recog- nize why they were so perfect. They grew in the evil germ-bearing days of open sink-drains ; the water from our kitchen must have proved a con-
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stant supply of moisture and richness for these Pear trees, which stood on either side of the opening of the drain.
Since that September day when the Dean brothers gave us of their bounty, I have had Flemish Beauty pears from their trees each autumn. When Addy Dean appeared, and in a surprisingly short time, 1 saw why she was termed a girl. By the testimony of the stratified farmer she must have been sixty years old ; but her face, with the fine pink bloom of its cheek, was that of perennial youth. She was thin to a degree, and clad in ancient garments which bore no pretense of modern reshaping. A tucked barege of green and white was worn with a purple sprigged lawn waist of a style of forty years since; its shoulder- seams drooped halfway to the elbow in comic resem- blance to a recently revived mode. A tiny fringed black silk cape hung around her thin shoulders. Her pale hair, pale with that curious faded look assumed by golden locks when mingled with silver, was so trimly brushed and dressed that we wondered whether she could have been napping on a Japanese neck-pillow.
Addy Dean is a type of New England life which, I fear, will never be found in generations to come ; a life of absolute dignity, even in comparative poverty. She lives with her brothers in their hundred-year- old house, with scant comfort, poor fare, and self-respecting independence, on a farm whose soil throws rocks up to view far more readily than corn. In the kitchen of that farm-house has never stepped, I believe, the foot of hireling servants — not even
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country help. Perhaps in strenuous time of birth or death some nurse of the country-side may have spent a few days, and been given in payment a bag of meal, a ham, a barrel of potatoes, or a jug of cider-brandy ; but it is far more likely that all such offices have been performed by kindly neighbors or kinsfolk. Every detail of housework has ever been done by the women of the household, and in past days they made much butter, too, for sale. Addy Dean is shrewder than her grandmother. To raise eggs to sell is far less work to the farm-wife than to make butter ; and selling antiques is more profitable than either. She was clever enough ten years ago to discover, even on that isolated farm, through the queries of the collectors for antique dealers, that there was an opening for her to make money, and she has, as the old books say, "improved" it. Addy Dean was so antique in dress and so simple and direct in her speech that her letters were a great surprise to me as well as a great delight. She has ample fund of quotation and comparison, and shows thereby goodly reading, though she lives six miles from the village library, and two of these six miles are private ways, one mile a driftway through the fields, and never broken out in winter by the town. Winter is, of course, her only reading time. I noted in her house a surprising number of magazines and weekly papers, possibly not of the latest dates, which matters little — far more magazines, I am sure, than are read by the city dweller in general ; far more than I read myself. Her spelling is per- fection, like nearly all New Englanders of her gen-
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eration, whatever that may be — I am setting her age as sixty. She was educated at the district school, which was one of the unique microcosms of our new-world life, the town-meeting being another. I doubt whether the scholar received much more personal attention than in our graded schools to- day, but the district school somehow afforded a happier education than is now given ; for a good
Ancient Sun-dial (?). Owned by Author.
"all-around start in life," with an education enab- ling one to write a good letter and to enjoy a good book, I know nothing that can at all compare with the "schooling" of the district school. It had its faults, but they were not so great for their place and time as are the faults of the present graded school. The district school turned out such pupils as Addy Dean ; doubtless nearly all children are better schol- ars, further " advanced," in our public schools to-
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day than she was at their age. But what I question is, will they be as good scholars as she is when they are her age ? I am sure they cannot love their schools as she loves the memory of hers. They will have little to remind them of it. She has a sorely worn dozen of school books — battered as would be school books studied by five or six scholars in succession. But there they are, to jog her mem- ory if she opens them, not only to recall a bit of geography or grammar, but to recall district school and scholars through the scribbled lore on fly leaves and page borders. Nothing can be to me more for- lorn, more like a convict system, than the latter-day fact that scholars do not own their school books — these are the property of the city. The child never " minds his book " save in school hours, and never sees it when he leaves.
No child of to-day will ever, forty years from now, show with almost tender reminiscence, a "thumb-paper" which has chanced to remain in her " Reader " since her school days ; a thumb- paper being — oh! you poor, unfortunate child who owns not your own school book — a square of stiff letter-paper or possibly colored paper, folded in a certain fashion to protect the lower portion of the leaf from " pricking thumbs." This " thumb- paper " of Addy Dean was of ruled blue foolscap and had as an appurtenance a long bit of linen thread, the end of which was brought around the outer book-back and tucked in securely between the leaves; this was to hold the "thumb-paper" in place, and in this case it had held it for half a cen-
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tury. In these school books of Addy Dean I found with glad recognition all the half-forgotten fly-leaf lore of my own childhood in Worcester, — the warn- ing rhymes and set border drawings of school children ; the Preface legends, and the coin-tracings, or rubbings, which we sometimes cut out and used as money in our pin-stores, poppy-shows, and grocery- stores.
Addy Dean has in the village a place where she can display any unusual piece of furniture or china which she has found; it will in the summer-time catch there the eye of the summer visitor, and thus tole him or her to the isolated Dean Farm and fur- ther purchases. We are apt to fancy that we secure great treasures if we purchase them from lonely farm-houses. This show room is in the house of a widower, a friend of the farmer who first told us of her. We suspect that the widower is an old ad- mirer ; he, too, always speaks of her as a girl. She had no sun-dials when I first visited her home. It was nearly a year before she could send me this one. And I tell, as an example of the dignified way in which this woman performs her duty in her day and her sphere in life, that ere she sent it to me she asked permission to have a copy cast from it, " to give to the children in the public school." On further inquiry I found that she had made for the school of the little town a very good collection of unusual objects which would interest and instruct the scholars, — Indian arrow-heads, curious utensils, old farm tools, carpentering tools, and a few old manu- scripts. As a proof of the absolute disappearance
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of the sun-dial in many localities, let me state that this sun-dial is the only one Addy Dean has ever found for me ; and when it was displayed to the
scholars in that school, there was not a child pres- ent who knew what it was, or who had ever seen a sun-dial ; and I am not sure that there was one present who had ever heard of one.
There may be one special rea- son for this : Addy Dean lives in the valley of the upper Con- necticut, and when the towns were settled there, about the time of the Rev- olutionary War,
Sun-dial at Didsbury, England.
clocks had already become cheap and common. Thrifty settlers, and it was such who went there, and who left such descendants as Addy Dean and her brothers, — these careful men managed to carry a small clock, even when the journey was made on horseback.
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In our New England home-gardens and home- meadows, and I am told also in yards and gar- dens in the Middle and Southern states, there grow trees unclassified of botanist, unnamed of scientist. It matters not their fruit, their flower, or their cone or nut, it matters not the shape of their leaves nor the spread of their branches ; but be they broad of trunk or bole they are right, and by their roots ye shall know them. Any tree that runs into the earth wide-spreading or curiously gnarled roots that extend out a little protected enclosure or circuit, this tree is the Children's Tree, and those roots form for the children their " cubby- house." This word cub- by-bouse, universally used by children, is one of those obscure and uni- versal terms so tempting
Sun-dial, showing Mean Time. Made by John S. Bailey.
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to the philologist. The word cub> in the sense of the young of various animals, has always been con- temptuously applied to servants, and, in the eigh- teenth century, to the assistants in hospitals, now known as " interns." " Each surgeon shall have three cubs as helpers," says an old hospital rule. The word cubicle (from the Latin cubare] seems to be little used save for the little cubby-holes of our boys' schools, — such, for instance, as the fifth form sleeping-apartments at St. Paul's School. I am always glad to find Dr. Holmes using the word cubby-hole, as he does all New England words and phrases, even in his serious writings. I have no doubt he played in a cubby-house, for they were beloved of boys as well as girls. The boys' cubby-houses showed dis- tinct and different furnishings. I well remember one under a great Oak tree in sunny Narragansett, where two loved boys played many a long summer day. Of one child, alas ! only such happy memories remain. This cubby-house held pop-guns of elder- berry stems, willow whistles, corn-silk cigars, strings of horse-chestnuts, and a little farm with stone walls laid of pebbles, and wonderful farm animals made of potatoes and carrots stuck with wooden legs.
Two years ago I paused one summer afternoon at the door of an old farm-house and walked around to the kitchen door to ask for " a drink of water " from the old well whose well-sweep had lured me from afar. At the farther end of the kitchen yard I spied with delight a Children's Tree, — an ancient Pine tree; and in the cleanly circuit of its roots, on its needled floor, was set a sight to thrill the happy
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memories of vanished years. There was all the old familiar stock and store of trash which is transmuted by childhood's subtle alchemy into unutterable treas- ure : milkweed pods, acorn cups, cleft peach-stones, rose-hips, and that ever present furnishing of cubby- houses, — broken china. American children gather their treasures precisely as is told of the children of the ancient Britons, " pots-herds or broken glasses or bones half burnt, or lime, or plaster"; ground-up and calcined bones make wonderful flour for childish storehouses. We had pretty dolls' tea-sets of turned wood and of real Chinese porcelain, Lowestoft, for which we cared little ; there was no imagination about them, and we could not take them out-of- doors and handle them freely.
I noted a few bits of old blue and lustre ware in this wayside cubby-house which promised ancient wares within-doors in the mother's pantry and cup- board, which we might be able to purchase if she " cared to dispose of them ' (never to sell them), when my attention was fixed by the little circular table of pewter about seven inches in diameter on which the choicest bits of the child's china were carefully displayed. Like a " table-bord " of ancient days, it seemed to be propped up from beneath by crossed wooden sticks like saw-horses which served as table-supports or trestles.
We had passed the children coming home from school, and even now they were racing down the home lane. So we waited, gazing rather sadly at the cubby-house treasures, until the older girl had run in to us, and at our request carefully removed
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the china and pulled up and turned over the pewter dining table, displaying to us on what had been the
under side the gnomon and let- tering of an old sun-dial.
She had found it in the attic and father thought it was part of a water-clock ; he had read of such things, but he could not think howit could run. She was over- comewithdelight at the proposal to exchange her pewter table, her clepsydra, for a pretty travelling- mirror which our dressing- case contained ; and the second sun- dial in the group, the one with a circular base, is now in my col- lection, to remind me ever of that happy summer day and the little cubby-house under the Pine tree.
Sun-dial in Garden of William Robinson, Author of the English Hower Garden, Gravetye Manor, Sussex, England.
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New England houses are, in general, frankly open in aspect, having no hidden meaning, no suggestion of sentiment. On the Ridge Road stands a house of unusual bearing, unlike its fellows in the old "South County," — a house which suggests even to the careless traveller something unusual, remote from everyday life and experience. It is so densely fronted with black-shadowed Cedars that you scarce see it in passing; and a single grand old Fir tree, a remnant of the forest primeval, overhangs the Cedars and the lowly roof-tree ; shadows of Cedars and Fir tree mantle back into a stately, reserved Pine forest close in the rear. The front windows of the lower story are heavily shuttered behind the Cedars, but the scant half-story above has blinking windows at the house ends under the overhanging roof. The house looks like a creature reflecting and enduring in silence. It stands near the cross-roads and is not far from the old post-road, which went up hill and down dale, but is never used for business drives to-day ; it shows by these two facts in its placing that its builder had social instincts and interests, that he wished to know his neighbors and the passing world. There is a family burying-place at the end of the garden, enclosed by more rank, darkling Cedars and a sister Fir tree. A row of slate headstones show by their scant inscriptions that a family of brothers and sisters here lie close to- gether. On the grave of most recent date (though that date is 1830) and over the neighboring headstones trails a choked Damask Rose. It is sadly unkempt, full of its own dead branches, and a tangle of Fir cones and many twigs and branches of broken Cedar.
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Nearly a year after the death of the last sister there suddenly appeared in the village, unacquainted, and to the surprise of all the curious neighbors, a distant cousin of the family, an elderly woman named Johns, who quietly settled before "the Squire " her claims to ownership of the house, and established herself therein.
Since he was as reticent of nature, nearly, as she was, the curiosity of the neighbors was never satisfied. The lower shutters were then closed, and locked within, and never opened during her life-time, — an action typical of the reserve of her nature ; and she thereafter lived in the rooms in the upper story. She was a weaver; I have told her life (in the scant details known to old residents in the South County) in the chapter entitled Narragansett Weavers, in my little book of stories of Old Narragansett. There were many hand-weavers in the South County, where wool-weaving by machinery has since been so sturdily established ; more than elsewhere in New England. There is one weaver still, William Rose, who weaves yearly on his hand-loom scores of bed- coverlets and hap-harlots, and other weavers who weave rag carpets only. There were in older days many weavers who worked in their own homes, spinning their own wool into yarn and weaving it into cloth to sell, or weaving the thread and yarn brought them by their neighbors ; and there were travelling weavers also, who " whipped the cat " from house to house, working for a few shillings a day and their " keep." Sometimes they brought their looms and set them up and spun for a month or two — as when making a wedding outfit.
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There were women weavers, too, in plenty, and Mistress 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 was her silence as well as her singular habit of stopping when at her work, and sitting for hours mo- tionless, which soon gave her the name of being a witch. It often angered the housewives when they were in a hurry for a piece of homespun for the boys' winter garments, to see her sit silent for hours, peering strangely into the loom, but they feared her witchcraft and said nothing ; and when night came, all would leave her in the loom-loft with candles or primitive lamps, silent still. But at midnight the family would hear a low, half-toned clapping of the loom ; not a loud bang, bang, as of honest weavers, but a dim sound of someone — the Old Boy — of course, helping the witch out on her stint. So at the week's end there was always more linen ready for bleaching, more homespun cloth on the roll, more yards of rag
Sun-dial and Porch of Church, Grateley, Hampshire, England.
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carpet ready for sewing than could be turned out by any man weaver in Narragansett.
Therefore, though it might be hitching up with the Devil, even the parson's wife employed her, and every household gave her work in plenty. She never ate with her employer, even when she stayed half the night, nor did they see that she brought food with her ; and she never talked, save to learn of her work ; and no neighbor ever entered her door, for she was seldom there save after nightfall, any- way. She lived to great old age, the last itinerant weaver in Old Narragansett. There came a time when, after a heavy storm, she did not appear as bidden in a gay household where preparations for a wedding were under way, and where she was to weave rag carpet for the bedrooms of the bride's new home. A kindly little tailoress, learning this, went across fields with a hand-lantern after nightfall, and entered the dark house, and climbed the narrow staircase; a poky thing to do, and a difficult one, for the tailoress was old ; a brave and Christian-like deed, too, for she was a timid and superstitious soul. She found the weaver-witch dead in her bed, with the rain blowing in through the broken roof, which had partly blown off in the storm. It was a sad sight, and one that throughout her life ever terrified the kindly little creature.
The following August a visit was made to the " Witch's House " to see if aught of interest or value remained in the house. The end windows had been broken by stones thrown by marauding boys, and spring rains and summer suns had freely
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Sun-dial at Chastleton Manor, Oxfordshire, England,
entered through window and roof. And the witch's bed on which she died, a sack filled with straw of mouse-barley with some spikes of grains attached, had sprouted and grown through the coarse hempen bedtick, and thus her bed was as green as the grass over her unmarked grave under the garden Cedars.
I have half a score of her loom-shuttles, and some of her loom-spools, a raddle (or rake), a sley, some niddy-noddies, — all these are portrayed in my book Home Life in Colonial Days. And I have her sun-dial, it is the third in the illustration on page 427. A primitive little dial, it served her well through many years of honest work and isolated life ; for she had no other timekeeper.
The fourth — the largest sun-dial - - is not in very good favor with me at present. I bought it from an
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ingenuous farmer on The Boston Road. Black and dirty, it was cemented to a tree stump in his kitchen garden, and seemed as old as the house, which he said was a hundred, and which I thought he said was built by his grandfather. I was much delighted when I purchased it; but just as I hurried away from the farm kitchen he displayed to us several pitchers of silver lustre and half a dozen blue willow-ware plates which he would be willing to part with. We could only glance at them, as we had scant time to drive two miles to catch the local train, but by that fleeting glance those pieces of old crockery certainly looked brand new. At the station I had one minute to interview a stage-driver. "How long has Ellis lived on his place up the road?' I said. "About a year," was the answer. " Hasn't he a sun-dial for sale ? ' I venture diplomatically. " Don't know as he has ; he sold it last week."
Now if he sold his sun-dial last week, from whence came my dial ? My friends believe the dial is an old one, but I think Farmer Ellis is a broken- down city dealer with an attic full of. new dials cast in some old mould or stamped with some old die, ever ready to replace the recently sold one in the kitchen yard.
INDEX
Abbotsford, dial at, 12.
Abbott, Peter, in Coronation Chair, 380.
Accomplisht Cook, 3115.
Accurate time, dial showing, 49-50.
Acorns, food of, 410.
Addison, J., quoted, 275.
Adlington Hall, dial at, 169.
Adlumia, as " cover-ground," 363.
Admiralty House diai, 219-220.
Affair of the Diamond Necklace, 375.
Affair of the Pinks, 351 et seq.
Ahaz, dial of. See Horologium Achaz.
Aime Jean, 376.
Alabaster, for dials, 207.
Albany, N.Y., meridian line at, 40.
Alchemy, 325, 327, 370, 387.
Aldborough, Saxon dial at, 81.
Aldeburgh Moot Hall, 10, 64.
Alexandria, Va., national cornerstone
at, 42.
Alfred, King, candle-clocks of, 54. Alice in Wonderland, 318-319. Alka, 37.
Allentown, Pa., dial at, 88, 89, 90, 92. Almanacs, 189, 190. Alphabet of flowers, 199. Althorp House, Northants, 219, 220. Ambassadors, by Holbein, 78. Ambleside, dials at, 25-26, 290-291. Amulets, 403. Analemmatic dial, 151. Anemometer, 59. Anemoscopes, 58-59. Angels holding dials, 14, 16, 17, 18. Anglo-Saxon division of time, 73. Anna Maria Rose, 344. Anne Boleyn, emblem of, 328 ; pageants
for, 328 et seq.
Anne de Diesbach Roses, 345, 346. Anne of Cleves, emblem of, 330. Apothecaries' Rose, 341. Appleby, 286-290. Appleseed Johnny, 423 ct seq. Appoline Rose, 352-353. Argeles, shepherd's-dial from, 125. Armillary sphere-dials, 141 et set]. Arms, Royal, embroidered, 169. Arnold, Matthew, quoted, 229, 290. Ascot Church, memorial dial and lamp
at, 293. Ashmole, Elias, 371 ; a Free Mason, 380
et seq. ; cited, 325. Assyria, allies with Ahaz, 392. Astrolabe, 131 etseq. ; Chaucer on, 132-
134-
Astrology, 104, 108-109, 381,389, 403. Athens, dials at, 58 ; anemoscope at,
58.
Atlas-bearing dial, 141. Attached dials, 63-74. Aubrey, quoted, in, 112, 113, 114,
35°-
Augsburg, dials at, 398, 405. Austrian Rose, 338, 341. Ayrshire, dials at, 74. Ayrshire Roses, 344. Aztec, signs of zodiac, 190 et seq.,
195-
Babylonian divisions of time, 116, 392; rectification of calendar, 392 ; ob- servation chambers, 392 ; sun-dial,
392-
Bacon, Roger, 382 et seq. Badge, defined, 176, 320. Baker, Marcus, cited, 43.
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448
Index
Balcarres Castle, dial at, 4. Baltimore Belle Rose, 343, 344. Bancroft, George, Rose garden of, 361,
et seq.
Bangor, Ireland, dial in, 269. Banksia Roses, 355. Barker, F., and Son, Messrs., dials made
by, 48, 49, 141, 197, 198, 200, 208,
220, 222, 284, 285. Barometer, invention of, 382, 384. Barton, Bernard, quoted, 7. Bartram, John, cited, 407 et seq.;
quoted, 407. Bayeux tapestry, 58. Beata Beatrix , 17.
Beaumont and Fletcher, quoted, 300. Bed of state, 168-170. Bedfordshire, England, dial at, 52, 266. Behmen, Jacob, 400, 402. Beissel, Conrad, 406; made magister,
408 et seq.
Bell, Mrs. Alfred, dial of, 272. Belton House, dial at, 198, 216. Bengal Roses, 354. Berkeley Castle, window-dial at, 52. Berwyn, Pa., dial at, 209, 210. Bethrothal Hall, 289. Betty-lamps, 2. Bewcastle, cross at, 72 et seq.; dial at,
72 ; customs of, 73. Beza, Theodore, emblems of, 167. Black Friars' Burying-ground, dial in,
230.
Black Roses, 342.
Blacksmith's arm as a gnomon, 230-231. Blake, William, cited, 240. Block-dials, 129, 130, 133, 145. Blush Rose, 347. Boar as an emblem, 326. Bodleian Library, quadrant in, 396. Boleyn, Anne. See Anne Boleyn. Bologna, meridian line at, 40. Book-dials, 148, 150. Book of Changes, 186, 187. Book of Sun-dials, 134. Bordeaux Roses, 352 et seq. Botanic garden of Dr. Witt, 407.
Boulder, as base for dial, 209, 210. Bourbon Roses, 352-353. Bournemouth, sun-dial at, 372. Boursault Roses, 344 et seq. Box around dial, 232. Boxwood for dial, 123, 124, 125. Boyle, Hon. Mrs. E. V., dials of, 212-
214; quoted, 267. Bramhall, dial at, 275. Branksea Castle, dial at, 383. Briar-candy, 313-314. Bridal Roses, 365. Bridges of verge-watches, 226-227. British Museum, portable dials at, 135. Brockenhurst, armillary sphere dial at,
141, 142.
Bronze Age, relics of, 81. Brooklyn, dial in, 20-21, 293. Broom of Plantagenets, 321. Brou, dial at, 228 et seq. Brougham, Countess, pillar at, 289-
290.
Brougham Hall, dial at, 266. Broughton Castle, dial at, 276. Buddha, 371.
Burgundy Roses, 234, 352 et seq. Burnet-leaved Rose, 340. Burning-glasses, 382. Burns, Robert, dialling studied by, 93. Burnside, Miss H. M. F., Roses and
dial of, 234. Burr, Rose, 340. Butterfly on window-dial, 52. Buttress, dials on, 71. Byrom, John, dial at home of, 52.
Cabbage Provins Rose, 341. Cadran a la Capucine, 51. Cagliostro, Count, 375. Calendar-stone, of Mexico, 191-193 ;
of Peru, 192. California, dials in, 67-69, 273; Roses
in, 309.
Camden, William, quoted, 325. Candle, by inch of, 55. Candle-clocks, 55. Cannon as pedestal, 49.
Index
449
Cannon-dials, 49 et seq. ; of Sultan of
Morocco, 48, 49. Canon's Ashby, dial at, 268. Canterbury, dial at, 217. Canton, clepsydra in, 54. Cardinal points, among Indians, 194;
among Mexicans, 194-196. Carlisle, pillar-dial at, 388. Carlyle, Thomas, cited, 366, 375,384;
quoted, 366, 391. Casket-dial, 153 et seq. Castellated and Domestic Architecture
of Scotland, 6 1 et seq. Castleberg, natural dial at, 37, 38. Cato, cited, 298. Ceiling-dials, 45 et seq. See Spot Dials,
Reflective Dials. Celibacy, vows of, 400. Centennial Exposition, dial at, 88, 89,
90, 92.
Chalice-dial, 152-153. Chamber of Perfection, 498. Chaplets, 297 et seq. Charing Cross, 379. Charles I, sun-dials of, 80, 114, 115. Charles II, sun-dial of, 115-119 ; a Free
Mason, 380.
Chartres, dial at, 18, 292, 346. Chatelaine-dial, 148-149. Chaucer, quoted, 121, 274; on astro- labe, 132-134 ; Romaunt of the Rose,
385 et seq. ; a Lollardite, 387. Cheshire, England, dials in, 49, 169,
173, 256, 272, 275, 386. Chester, Rev. G. J., mottoes by, 233,
271-272. Chilindre, history of, 121-125 > con~
struction of, 125-128. Chimney, dial on, 67. China Roses, 354. Chinese, verses of, 30, 54 ; clepsydras
of, 54; incense sticks in, 54; time
divisions of, 54 ; compass of, 157 ;
stop-short in, 157; astronomy in,
157; book of, 186; dial-pedestals,
209; potpourri of, 315. Chiswick, dial at, 231.
2G
Christian Science in fifteenth century,
385- Clepsydra, invention of, 53 et seq.;
in Chinese verse, 54; in Canton,
55 ; in Madagascar, 56 ; in France,
57; in Athens, 58; of Holbein,
104.
Clifford, Anne, pillar-dials of, 284-290. Clocks, in China, 56; of Holbein, 104. Clumber, armillary sphere-dial at, 142. Coates, Henry T., dial of, 209-210. Coat-of-arms, royal, 169. Cocalico, settlement on, 408 et seq. Cock, significance of, 183. Cockatoo in city, 20. Cognizants, 177, 320. Coleridge, Sara, cited, 375. Collinson corresponds with Bartram,
407.
Color, significance of, 179-180. Columbine as dial design, 200-202. Columbus, Christopher, text-books
read by, 382.
Column dials. See Chilindre. Confucius, cited, 186, 187. Congress House, Washington, 43. Conserve of Roses, 310. Constantinople, anemoscope at, 58;
dials in, 85-86. Cooks of Richard II, 312. Copenhagen, dials in, 227. Corbels, dials on, 62, 71. Cornaro, Frederick, emblem of, 176. Corner-dials, 69 et seq. Cornwall, dials in, 281. Coronation Chair, 379-380. Coronation Stone, 379-380. Corpus Christi College, Kratzer at, 104 ;
dial at, 109 et seq. Costorphine, dial at, 71. Countess of Pembroke's pillar, 286-
290.
Cover-grounds, 362-363. Cowper, quoted, 347. Cremer, John, 325, 378. Cresset stone at Lewannick Church,
66.
45°
Index
Crest, defined, 176. Crocuses, 30-31. Cromarty, dial at, 14. Cross, as a symbol, 196, 371. Cross-dials, 78, 88, 144, 280-285. Crosses, dials on, 62, 71 et seq., 74,
179, 379 ; in market-places, 71 ctseq.,
179.
Crumbs, bread, flowers made of, 310. Crystal of Kelpins, 401, 402. Cubby-houses, 438. Cumberland, dials in, 72 et seq. Cure of Old Age, 382. Currency, of United States, 21 ; of New
York, 23.
Cylinder dials. See Chilindre. Cylindrical dials, 88. Cynorrhodon, 311.
Daisies around dial, 233.
Damask Roses, 303, 309, 349 et seq.,
365- Damnable hum, 316-317.
Dandelion, 4.
Danish relics, 81, 194, 195.
Dante, 378 ; a Rosicrucian, 387.
Dante's Amor, 16, 292.
Darnley, needlework imprese of, 174.
Dartmoor, dial at, 228.
Death's head on dials, 228, 230, 270.
Declining dials, 88.
Dee, Dr., a dialler, 104.
Delhi, dial at, 86.
De Quincey on Rosicrucianism, 382.
Derbyshire, dials in, 64, 65.
Detached dials, 74 et seq.
Device, 320.
Dialling, defined, 87, 89; taught in
school, 90 ct seq.; books on, 135. Dickens, Charles, dial of, 214. Dickinson, Emily, quoted, 27. Digby, Sir Kenelm, 311, 350. Dijon, dial at, 229. Dipleidoscope, 291. District of Columbia, laying out of, 4:
et seq. District schools, 430.
Dii'ina Commcdia, 387.
Dobson, Austin, quoted, 17, 274.
Dog-fennel in Indiana, 423-424.
Dog Roses, 311.
Donne, Dr., quoted, 199.
Dorsetshire, dials in, 369, 370.
Dow, Lorenzo, 424 ct seq.
Dragon gnomon, 416.
Drayton, cited, 323.
Dresden Museum, portable dials in,
133-
Dress of diallers, 397, 398. Dromore Castle, sun-dial on, 269. Drummond, Sir William, quoted, 320. Drumthwacket, dial at, 245. Dryden, Sir Henry, cited, 82, 83; dial
'of, 268.
Ducher, Hans, dials of, 149 et seq. Dundas Castle, dial of, 78. Dundee, Scotland, dial at, 77, 78. Durham Cathedral, noon-mark at, 45. Duryea, Samuel Bo\vne, dials of, 20-21. Dutch love of Tulips, 202 et seq.
Edinburgh, dials at, 69, 70, 71.
Edward I, emblem of, 321-322 ; a Rosi- crucian, 378 et seq.
Edward IV, recipe of, 310; victory of, 323 ; on English history of the Roses, 322 et seq.
Edward VI, emblem of, 330.
Eglantine, 303, 313.
Egypt, lamps oi, 2; dials in, 37.
Eleanor of Provence, 323.
Electuary of Roses, 311.
Elizabeth, Queen, carnation garment of, 172-173.
Ellicott, George, dials of, 24.
Elm Hirst, dial at, 45, 49.
Elmley Castle, dials at, 74.
Emblem, defined, 164, 165 ; of Geoffrey Whitney, 164, 165, 185; in France, 167; in Shakespeare, 166; of Mary Queen of Scots, 167 et seq.; reli- gions, 166; of the Rosicrucians, 371; of Lady Drury, 174; the Rose as an, 319 ; of Louise de Valdemont,
Index
45
175-176; of Sir Philip Sidney, 176; of Bishop of Padua, 176; of mysti- cal religions, 184; of Aztecs, 190 et seq.; of Rose, 371 et seq. ; of Cross, 371 et seq.
Embroidery work of Mary Queen of Scots, 168 et seq.
Enfield Old House, dial at, 215, 231.
Ephrata, 406, 408, 409, 410.
Equation of time, contrivance for showing on dial, 50.
Equatorial dials, 88.
Equinoctial dials. See Equatorial Dials.
Erasmus, quoted, 406.
Essex, dial in, 420.
Essington, R. W., cross-dials of, 281.
Evans, Lewis, Russel Farm, Watford, England, dials of, 104 et seq., 123, 124, 12^, 129, 130, 132; cited, 276- 278 ; collections in family of, 134-
135-
Evelyn, John, quoted, 47, 48 ; cited, 119. Exeter Museum, dial at, 140. Eyam, dial on church, 64, 65, 187, 188 ;
tragic story of, 65, 66
Facet-headed dials, 78 et seq., 271.
Fairfield, Conn., dial at, 236.
Fairy Rose, 234, 354 et seq.
Faith, natural, of Dr. Flood, 385.
Fawcett, Edgar, quoted, 348.
Feast brothers, quoted, 344.
Fenwick, Scotland, dial at, 93.
Ferguson, James, quoted, 126 et seq.; biography of, 129 et seq. ; dials of, 126 et seq.; rules of, 126-128.
Ferns as " cover-grounds," 363-364.
Fielding, Betty Washington, dial of, 249.
Fifeshire, dials in, 80, 81, 281 et seq.
Figs, as a poultice, 393 et seq.
Filippo et Haves, dial of, 151.
Fingask Castle, dial at, 174.
Finger-rings with dials, 137.
Fire-towers, 183.
Fire-worship, 183.
Fish-skin covers for dials, 144.
Fitzgerald, Edward, quoted, 57.
Fixed dials, 87.
Flame-fanes, 183.
Flat-irons of wood, 410.
Fleming, Albert, memorial dial of, 290.
Flights, of Carlyle, 375.
Flood, Dr. Rott, 384 et seq.
Floral dials, 199, 200.
Floralia, 301.
Floral Park, dial at, 209.
Florence, portable dials in museum,
I3S-I36.
Florio, quoted, 225.
Flowers a true lover's gift, 412-413.
Fly painted on window-dials, 52.
Foot-washings, 409.
Form of Cury, 312 et seq.
Fountain, dial set in, 76.
Fountain Hall, dial at, 62.
Fountain la Val, 351.
Four seasons, 197, 198, 218.
France, Rosicrucianism in, 373 et seq., 376 et seq., 392 et seq.
Francis I, imprese of, 170.
Frankenstein, 382.
Frankford Arsenal, dial at, 49-50.
Franklin, Benjamin, as designer of cur- rency, 22 ; way-wiser of, 48 ; inter- est in dials, 22, 408 ; founds Am. Phil. Assn. ,408.
Franklin cent, 21.
Fredericksburg, Va., dial at, 253.
Free Masonry, 380, 381.
Freestone for dials, 207.
Friar Bacon. See Bacon, Roger.
Friends' Burying-ground, 211.
Fritillary, 6.
Fry, Mr., collection of, 135.
Fugio dollar, 21.
Fuller, Thomas, quoted, 114, 297, 327, 371, 384, 385.
Furness, H. H., dial of, 241.
Fylfot. See Swastika.
Gadshill, dial at, 214.
Gardener's and Botanist's Dictionary,
333-
452
Index
Gardener's Garters, 237.
Garden of Esperance, 328.
Garlands, 297 et seq.
Gatty, Mrs., cited, 84, 134, 135, 252, 253.
Gazel, 358.
Genoa, dial upon cathedral, 14, 292.
Gerarde, John, quoted, 241, 305, 318,
359-
Germantown, dials in, 211-212, 224- 225, 267, 270, 271.
Germany, Rosicrucians, 367, 369, 398 et seq., 408.
Ghazal, 358.
Gibbons, Grinling, dial carved by, 216.
Glamis Castle, dial of, 3 et seq.
Glanville, quoted, 8.
Glasgow, Earl of, dial of, 75-76.
Glass globes as dials, 116, 117, 142.
Globe dials, 88, 116, 117, 141-142. See Armillary sphere-dials.
Glue, flowers made of, 310.
Glycera, courtship of, 299 et seq.
Gnomons, primitive, 36 et seq. ; angel's wing, 64; varied shapes, 80; of co- lossal size, 86; importance of, 101 et seq., 226 et seq.; horns, 116 ; stars, 116; Flower de Luce, 117; defined, 225 et seq. ; globe, 228 ; bird's wing, 228; dragon, 228, 416; blacksmith's arm, 230-231.
Goblet dial, 152-153.
Gold made by alchemy, 368, 397.
Gold of Ophir Roses, 319.
Gold-Cooks, 366.
Gower, John, a Rosicrucian, 387.
Gower, Lord Ronald, dial-motto of, 276.
Gravetye Manor, dial at, 321.
Great Brington, dials at, 26, 179, 181.
Grooms, in Rosicrucian Society, 370.
Gros Provins Panachees, 342.
Guide-boards, 181, 182.
Gunpowder, invention of, 382.
Haddonfield, N.J., dial at, 210, 211. Hafiz, quoted, 358, 359. Hagenmark, 315.
Hagioscope, 84.
Hale, Edward Everett, cited, 15. Hall, Father Francis, dial of, 115-119. Halley, Edward, inventions of, 113 et
seq.
Hampshire Court, dial at, 216. Hardy, Thomas, cited, 246. Harlestone House, Northants, dial at,
218, 219.
Harrison Roses, 338, 339, 340. Hartford, Conn., dial at, 239. Harvard University, dial at, 294. Hawthorn as an emblem, 327. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, cited, 294. Hayes, James Russell, quoted, 364-
365-
Hazard, Rowland, G., dial of, 67.
Hedgehog Rose, 336.
Hegge, Robert, quoted, I, 107-108.
Heidelberg, Rosicrucians in, 408.
Heliotrope of Gilbert White, 232.
Hemicycle, 84.
Hemispherum, 84.
Hem stead, needlework at, 174.
Henrietta Maria, dial of, 80; cook-book of, 311 et seq.
Henry IV, 325.
Henry VII, emblem of, 327.
Henry VIII, horologer of, 104 et seq. ; sun-dial of, 106; horologium of, in ; coins of, 326; emblem of, 327.
Heraldry, for emblems, 175; for sun- dials, 175-176.
Herballs, 296.
Herbert, George, quoted, 296, 304.
Herb-Johns, three, 297.
Herbs, sweet-scented, around dial, 238.
Herculaneum, portable dial from, 124.
Heriot's Hospital, dials at, 71.
Hexagonal dials, 118.
Hindoos, god of, 371.
Hinkley, Leicester, state bed at, 170.
Historie of the World. Chapter XIII.
Hogarth, his flower-show ticket, 364; dial in picture, 270.
Holbein, Hans, Ambassadors, 78 ; friend of Kratzer, 104; portrait of,
Index
453
104; time-meter of, 104; dials of,
104 ; clepsydra of, 104. Holland House, armillary sphere-dial
at, 142.
Holland, love of Tulips in, 202 et seq. Holland, Philemon, translation of, 297
et seq.
Hollyhocks, around dial, 249. Holmes, Dr. O. W., on coincidences,
390 et seq. Holy Hermit, 375. Holyrood Castle, dial at, 79, 174, 232 ;
garden at, 174.
Home established by the Puritans, 412. Honestone dial, 204. Honey of Roses, 311. Honeysuckle around dial, 234. Hooke, Robert, dials of, 114. Horace, cited, 3. Horizontal dials, 81. Horologiographia Optica, 270. Horologium Achaz, 393 et seq. Horoscopes, 107, 403. Hour-bowls, 57. Hour-glass, charm of, 5 ; first made,
58.
Howard, John, cited, 279. Howard, Katherine, emblem of, 330. Hi/dibras, quoted, 274, 275. Humphrey, Sir William, dial of, 26, 29. Hundred-leaved Rose, 358 et seq., 360,
365-
Hunt, Leigh, quoted, 199. Huntercombe Manor, dials at, 210-212. Hwaetred, cross of, 73.
Impreses, 168-170, 320.
Incense-sticks, 54, 55.
Inclining dial, 88.
Index. See Gnomon.
India, primitive dials in, 36 ; stave-dials in, 125; astrolabe in, 131; signs of zodiac, 190.
Indiana, stocked with apples, 422 et seq.; with dog-fennel, 423-424.
Indians, 194. See also Aztec and Mex- ico.
Indra, the god, 371.
Inner Temple, dial of, 23, 171.
Ireland, dials in, 39, 280; Coronation
Stone in, 380.
Ireland, William de, work of, 379. Iron, the product of powers of darkness,
410.
Isaiah, miracle of, 391, 393. Italy, time divisions in, 116. Ivory dials, 121, 125, 146, 147. Ivy Lodge, dial at, 270, 271.
Jacob's Pillow, 379.
Jacquin, 334.
James I, his love of emblems, 167;
coins of, 326; emblem of, 331, 332. Japanese Ivy, 209, 210. Jefferson, Thomas, letter to, 43; letter
of, 91-92.
Jeffries, Richard, cited, 27. Jenkins, Charles F., dial of, 224-225. Jewell House of Art and Nature, 305
et seq.
Jewish hours on dial, 116. Jeypore, dials at, 83, 86. Joan Silverpin, 241, 338. Johnson, cited, 302. Jones, Dr., scatters apple trees, 421 et
seq. Jonson, Ben, quoted, 30; letter to,
167-168.
Josephine, Empress, Roses of, 334, 342. Judd, Sylvester, cited, 32 et seq.;
quoted, 33, 34, 35. June Rose, 335-337. Jurisdiction Stones, 42.
Kalendar. See Chilindre. Katherine of Aragon, needlework of,
174; emblem of, 327, 328. Kelburn House, dial at, 6, 75 et seq. Kelly, Sir Edward, an alchemist, 371. Kelpius, Magister, 399 et seq. Kenmore, dial at, 249. Kensington, portable dials at, 135. Kensington Museum, bronze trumpet
in, 192.
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Index
Kent, Mr., collection of, 135.
Kerry, dial in, 269.
Kersall Cell, window-dial at, 52,53.
Kissing comfits, 315.
Knox, John, dial of, 69-70.
Kratzer, Nicholas, 103 et seq. ; portrait of, 104 ; portable dial by, 104 et seq. ; dial for Henry VIII, 106; drawing of this dial, 107; Hegge's descrip- tions of dial, 107, 108 ; dial at St. Mary's College, 109.
Labadists, 403.
Labrador Indians, primitive dial of,
36.
Ladies' Delights, 29.
Ladylands House, dial at, 78.
Lalla Rookh, 359.
Lamb, Charles, quoted, 8, 9, 15, 16.
Lambeth Palace, window-dial at, 52.
Lamoine, 351.
Lamps, 2.
Lanceston, dial and cresset stone at, 66.
Landor, W. S., cited on color, 179-180 ; motto by, 274.
Lapland, Roses of, 337.
Lasserers, 329.
Lawn-roller as pedestal, 215.
Lawson Rose, 346.
Leadbetter, mottoes from, 51.
Leather man, 424.
Lectern-shaped dials, 76 et seq.
Leicestershire, dials in, 81.
Lelant Church, gnomon on, 227, 228.
Le Maire, dials of, 143, 144, 151.
L' Enfant, plan of, 42.
L-ns-dials, 49 et seq., 117.
Lewannick, dial and cresset stone at church, 66.
Leybourne, books of, 46, 88, 115; de- signs of, 46 ; rules of, 46, 94 ; dial of, 88 ; quoted, 119.
Liberty Tea, 422.
Lichgates, dials on, 71.
Life, prolongation of, 368.
Lihwati, 56.
Linburn House, Midlothian, dials at,
76, 271.
Lincolnshire, England, dials in, 198. Lindfield, Sussex, dial at, 220-222, 226,
276.
Lindley, quoted, 358. Little Brington, Northants, dial at, 177-
179.
Little Burgundy Rose, 353-354. Livery of seisin, 182. Logan House, dial at, 269 et seq. Loggan's Views of English Universi- ties, 109.
Lollard, a Rosicrucian, 387. London, dial on post-office, 22- 23 ; dials
for, 125 et seq. Longfellow, quoted, 279. Longshanks, 321. Lotus, as dial design, 198-199. Loughborough, dial at, 217. Louise de Valdemont, emblem of, 175-
176.
Love-feasts, 409. Lowell, James Russell, quoted, 163,
248. Lower Harlestone, Northants, corner
dials at, 71. Luck-circles, 81. Lully, Raymond, alchemist, 325 et seq.,
378.
Luxembourg Roses, 362. Lynn, market cross in, 386. Lyre-shaped dial, 151.
Macaroons, 316.
Macbeth, 3.
Madame Plantier Rose, 346, 348 et
seq.
Magic in dialling 108 et seq. Maidenhead, dials at, 212-214. Maiden's Blush Rose, 347 et seq. Malays, foot measure of, 53. Mallow family, 249. Malmaison, Roses at, 334, 342. Manchester, dial at, 52, 53. Manz dial, motto of, 32. Marble for dials, 206 et seq., 279-280.
Index
455
Mare Island,. Cal., dial at, 273.
Margaret, 32-35.
Marie Antoinette, her proposed escape
to America, 351 et seq. Market crosses, 71 et seq., 374, 386. Market-places, dials in, 71 et seq. Martineau, Harriet, dial of, 25-26;
quoted, 25-26. Martock, pillar-dial at, 381. Mary Queen of England, emblem of,
33°. 331- Mary Queen of Scots, her love of
emblems, 167, 321 ; needlework
of, 167-174; embroidery materials
of, 172 ; dial of, 174 ; love of flowers,
174.
Masonic dials, 77 et seq. Masques of James I and Charles 1 , 389. Mather, Cotton, quoted, 372. Matthai, Conrad, 406. May Roses, 337. Mechanical Dialling, 125 et seq. Memnomites, 403. Memorial Rose, 299. Merchantsville, N.J., dial in, 63. Meridian Hill, 43. Meridian lines, 39 et seq. Meridian Stone, 43-44. Mexico, time division in, 190; calendar
stone in, 191 ; signs of zodiac in,
190; sun worship in, 191 et seq.;
cardinal points, 195-196; marbles
of, 207 ; Eve of, 372. Michigan Rose, 344. Mickley, Gen. P. ]., dial of. 88, 89, 90,
92.
Midas, King, garden of, 372. Midcalder House, dial at, 78. Middlesex, dials in, 215-216. Midlothian, dials of, 71, 78, 271, 285. Milan, motto on dial, 32. Milestones, 9. Miletus, Rose of, 302. Millennium, coming of, 404, 405. Miller, Hugh, quoted, 14; dial of, 14-15. Miller's Gardener's Dictionary, 333 et
seq.
Millrigy, dial at, 270-271.
Milton influenced by Rosicrucianism,
389-
Minarets, 183.
Minster Lovell, squint at, 83. Miracle of Isaiah, 391. Mission in California, dial at, 67-68. Mitchell, H. R., rules for constructing
dials by, 95 et seq. Mompesson, heroism of, 65, 66. Monaco, lens-dial at, 50. Money-in-both-pockets, 337. Monoliths, 183. Moor, as pedestal, 215, 216. Moor Park, dial at, 279-280. Moore, Thomas, quoted, 359. Moot Hall, 10, 64. Moral cards, 404. Morgan cited, 270. Morgen-Rothe, 400-402. Morocco, Sultan's dial, 48, 49. Morristown, N.J., portable dial at, 148. Moss Roses, 359-361, 365. Moulds for making dials, 24. Mount Auburn cemetery, dial at, 295. Mount Melville, dial at, 80-81. Mount Vernon, Roses at, 297. Munich, sun-dial at, 409. Munster, treatise by, 106. Muskechives, 315. Mysticism in Pennsylvania, 398 et seq.
Natural dials, 34 et seq. Neaum Crag, dial at, 290. Needlework, of Mary Queen of Scots,
\(&etseq.; of Water Poet, 170; of
Tulips, 202 et seq. Neidpath Castle, dial at, 78. New Hampshire, Roses in, 336. New Haven, dials at, 292, 294, 295. New Quay, dial at, 281. New York, currency of, 22, 23. Newhall, Penicuik, dial at, 285. Newington, dial at, 273. Newton, Sir Isaac, dials of, 45 et seq. Noble. See Rose Noble. Nocturnal dials, 88, 147.
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Index
Noon-marks, 35 et seq. See also Merid- ian Lines.
Northamptonshire, dials in, 26, 66, 67, 71, 178, 179, 268 ; sun-circles in, 81 ; squints in, 82-83; Queen's cross in,
377, 379- North-hill, Bedfordshire, window-dial
at, 52.
Norway, natural dials in, 39. Notre Dame, signs of zodiac on, 190. Nuremberg, portable dials of, 135, 144,
145. 149-
Oak as food and drink, 410.
Oakley Park, dial in, 141.
Obelisks, 183; as gnomons, 39; at Washington, 43.
Obelisk-shaped dials, 75 et seq., 271.
Observatory, first in the colonies, 403.
Octahedral dials, 129, 145.
Odometer, 47. See Waywiser.
Old Place, Lindfield, dial at, 222, 226, 276.
Onyx for dials, 207.
Ophir Farm, dial at, 185 et seq.
Opyn-tide, 29.
Orienting a dial, 88.
Oughtred, William, works of, 46; biog- raphy of, 112 et seq.
Oxford, dials at, 109, no, in.
Oxfordshire, dials in, 198.
Packer Institute, dial at, 293.
Padua Church, signs of zodiac on, 190.
Paquerette Roses, 234.
Parkinson, John, quoted, 305, 359.
Parley, Peter, 424.
Parr, Katherine, emblem of, 330.
Parsees, flame-fanes of, 183.
Patience, 350.
Pausias, courtship of, 299.
Peace Dale, R.I., dial at, 67.
Peach, double, 244-246.
Peacock, Dr., quoted, 59.
Pedestal, a pole, 239 ; stone from battle- field, 230 ; stones from beach, 231 ; gate-post, 235 ; Pompeian talk, 222 ;
stone roller, 214 ; bridge pillar, 214-
215 ; tomb as, 212-213 '
208 ; Japanese vase as, 209. Pelham buckle, 177, 321. Pelton, Somersetshire, memorial dial
at, 293-294. Penecuik, dial at, 285. Penmanship, importance of, 205. Pennsylvania, dial-making in, 24;
charm of its settlement, 402 ; liberty
of conscience in, 398 ; Rosicrucian-
ism in, 398 et seq. Pennsylvania Dutch, Tulips among,
203.
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, 402. Pentagonal dials, 118. Pepys, Samuel, quoted, 317. Perambulator. See Waywiser. Perlachthurm, 398, 405. Perpendicular forms, beauty of, 248. Persian Yellow Roses, 338. Perthshire, Scotland, dial in, 174, 230. Peru, calendar-stone of, 192 ; cardinal
points, 195 ; Eve of, 372. Pctersfield, dial at, 67. Pewter, dials of, 23-25 ; teapot of,
203.
Pewterer's lists, 23. Phaidros, dial of, 85. Phantasmion, 375. Philadelphia, dial near, 49 ; dial at, 88,
89,90,92,218,280,393 ; Rosicrucians
in, 400 et seq. Philosopher's Stone, 113, 368, 370-371,
382, 404.
Pilgrims, 400 et seq., 406. Pillar-dials, fixed, 286, 287, 288, 289. Pillar-dials, portable. See Chilindre. Pine trees around dials, 246 et seq.;
voice of, 246-248. Plague in Eyam, 65, 66. Plat, Sir Hugh, quoted, 305 et seq. Pliny, quoted, 39, 243, 296 ; translation
of, 296 et seq. See Chapter XIII. Pococke, Bishop, quoted, 38. Pointer. See Gnomon. Poke-dials, 120.
Index
457
Polar dials, 105.
Pole as dial, 36 et seq., 229-230.
Pole in ground as gnomon, 36.
Pomanders, 310.
Pompeii, anemoscopes in, 58.
Pompon Roses, 234, 354 et seq.
Pony Roses. See Fairy Roses.
Poole Harbour, dial at, 383.
Pope, Alexander, quoted, 366, 367, 389.
Poppies around dial, 241 et seq.; as
food, 242-243; mystery of, 243;
arrangement of, by C. Thaxter,
243-244. Portarium, 120. Posies for ring-dials, 140. Potpourri, 315. Potted Roses, 316. Prneneste, Rose of, 302. Prairie Roses, 343. Princeton, N.J., dials at, 245, 290, 294,
421.
Prize for dials, 225. Proclining dials, 83, 88. Provencal literature, 387. Provence Rose, 302, 341. Provins Rose, 341, 342. Purple Bouquet Rose, 340 et seq. Purple Velvet Rose, 341 et seq. Puvis de Chavannes, 376. Pyramids, 183. Pyrenean dial. See Chiiindre.
Quadrant of C. Schissler, 396, 397, 399, 401, 403.
Quadrantal dials, 88, 150, 151.
Quarles, Francis, quoted, 163 ; Em- blems of, 166, 275, 276.
Queen Eleanor's cross, 377, 379.
Queen Mary's dial, 79-80.
Queen's Closet Opened, 311 et seq.
Queen's Delight, 311.
Quiver-dials, 85.
Raised work, 171. Raleigh, Sir Walter, 311, 317. Ramsay, Allen, memorial to, 285. Rape of the Lock, 366, 389.
Reclining dials, 86, 116.
Rectifying a dial, 88.
Redoute, P. J., 333 et seq.; cited, 341,
342, 353. 354-
Reflective dials, 45 et seq., 88, 116. See also Spot-dials and Ceiling- dials.
Refractive dials, 52, 53, 88, 393.
Reid, Hon. Whitelaw, dial of, 185, 186, 188.
Reinmann, Paul, dials of, 150.
Rembaults, Arthur, quoted, 179.
Reminding stones, 183.
Reserve among New Englanders, 411 et seq.
Ribbon-grass around dial, 235 et seq.; sentiment about, 236-237.
Richard II, cook-book of, 312 et seq.; 2000 cooks of, 312.
Richard III, emblem of, 326.
Ring-dials, 120, 136-141.
Ripley, Sir George, an alchemist, 371.
Robert the Searcher, alchemy of, 371.
Robertson, T. S., drawings by, 281- 284.
Robin's Island, dial at, 21.
Robinson, William, roses in garden of, 321.
Rochambeau, pocket-dial of, 143.
Rolls with poppy seed, 242-243.
Romans, time divisions of, 73.
Romaunt of the Rose, 385 et seq.
Rome, lamps of, 2; obelisk in, 39; dials in, 39, 84, 136; noon-mark at, 39; anemoscopes in, 58; poppy- cakes in, 243; garlands in, 299 et seq. ; roses of, 302 et seq.
Ronsard, quoted, 274.
Rosa Alba, 347-348.
Rosa Centifolia, 302, 341.
Rosa Cinnamonea, 337.
Rosa Gallic a, 302, 341.
Rosa GrcBcula, 302.
Rosa Grevillei, 356-358.
Rosa Lucida, 343.
Rosa Majalis, 337.
Rosa pumilla, 341.
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Index
Rosa Rub i folia, 343 et seq.
Rosa Rugosa, 315, 336.
Rosa Silvestris, 303.
Rosa Solis, 316-317.
Rosamond Rose, 342.
Rose arches at Twin Oaks, 314.
Rose-cakes, 307.
Rose-conserves, 310, 312.
Rose-cordial, 311.'
Rose d' Amour, 343.
Rose en soliel, 323.
Rose-hips, 313-315.
Rose-leaves dried, 303, 307, 310.
Rose-lohochs, 311.
Rose-noble, 324 et seq.
Rose of Rouen, 324.
Rose-plate, 315.
Rose-still, 311.
Rose-troches, 311.
Rose vinegar, 308.
Rose-water, 308, 311.
Rosee, 313.
Roses for English gardens, 335.
Roses set around dials, 234-235 ; for- mality of garlands, 300; as medi- cines, 302 et seq. ; of ancient Rome, 302 et seq. ; culture of, 303 ; rules for drying, 307-308 ; for distilling, 308- 309; for preserving, 309-310; for conserving, 310; old-fashioned, as an emblem, 319 et seq. ; of Redoute, 333. 353- 354; scattered by John Holmes, 419 et seq.
Rosencreutz, Christian, 367 et seq.
Rosicrucians, in Chapter XVIII ; also, 392 et seq., 398.
Rosier d' Amour, 341.
Rossetti, D. G., quoted, 13, 17.
Rostherne, dial in, 173.
Rouen, Rose of, 324.
Rousseau's Botany, illustrated, 334.
Rudolphus II, waywiser of, 398
Rules for making dials, 91 et seq.; 126 et seq.
Runic cross, in Eyam, 65.
Rushton, Triangular Lodge at, 66, 67.
Ruskin, cited, 243, 366.
Saffron Walden, dial at, 420.
Salisbury Close, meridian line in, 40.
Samplers, 174-175.
San Juan Bautista, dial at, 273.
Sand-glasses. See Hour-glasses.
Sandstone, dials made of, 76.
Santa Barbara, Cal., dial at, 67-68.
Sar Peladan, 376.
Saratoga, N.Y., dial at, 221-223.
Savage, arms of, 74.
Savoy, dial in, 228 et seq.
Sawce Sarzyne, 313.
Saxon dial, 18, 81, 82.
Saxony, dial from, 204.
Schissler, Christopher, dials of, 394,
395-
Schneip, Alexius, dials of, 145.
Schneip, Ubricus, dials of, 145. Scotch Roses, 337 et seq. Scotland, dials of, 61 et seq.; Corona- tion Stone in, 379-380. Scotscraig, Fifeshire, dial at, 281-284. Scott, Ebenezer Erskine, dials of, 271. Scott, Sir Walter, dial of, 12, 232 ; cited,
! 173- Seal-dials, 137.
Season's-dial, 188. Selborne, dial at, 223-224. Settle, natural dial at, 37-38. Seven ages of man, 194, 196, 197. Seven Sisters Rose, 356-358, 365. Seymour, Jane, emblem of, 329. Shagreen, dial-cases of, 144. Shakespeare, quoted, 28, 103, 120, 121;
cited, 166, 231, 240, 275, 322, 389. Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers,
166.
Sheepstor Church, dial-face on, 228. Shells worn by pilgrims, 406. Shenstone vicarage, cross-dial at, 281. Shepherd's-dial. See Chilindre. Shift-marriage, 182. Shillington Church, dial on, 266. Ship-dials, 151.
Shrewsbury, dial motto at, 390. Shropshire, dials in, 141. Sideboard of Marie Antoinette, 352.
Index
459
Sidney, Sir Philip, emblems of, 176.
Siena, seven ages of man at, 197.
Sign-boards, 181.
Signets, mystic, 404.
Sinkings, 75.
Skeleton as gnomon, 227-228.
Smith, Horace J., dial given by, 269
et seq. ; dial and home of, 271. Snow Pinks around dial, 234. Snowdrops, 29. Snowshoe, 2. Soapstone, mould of, 24. Solarium, 120. Soldiers carry dials, 155. Somerset, dials in, 381. Souther, H., dial of, 239.- Spencer, Earl, dials of, 219, 220. Spenser, Emblems in, 166 ; quoted,
274; a Rosicrucian, 387. Spherical dials, 141 et seq. Spiderwort as dial design, 200-201. Spirits, belief in, 367. Spot-dials, 45. See also Ceiling-dials,
Reflective Dials. Squinch, 84. Squints and Dials, 82. Squints, defined, 82-83. Stafford knot, 177.
St. John's Eve, rites of, 400, 404.
St. Mary's College, dial at, 109.
Stanley, Venetia, 350.
Star-dials, 88.
Steam-engines, prophecy about, 382.
Steatite, dial-mould of, 24.
Steeples, 183.
Stenton, dial at, 269 et seq.
Sterling, dial at, 17.
Stevenson, R. L., quoted, 166.
Stile. See Gnomon.
Stone of destiny, 380.
Stone of wisdom, 401, 402.
Stop-short, 54, 358.
Strathmore, Earl of, home and dial of 3 et seq.
Strewing herbs, 310-311.
Strickland, Agnes, cited, 173; quoted
324-
Striped Provins Roses, 342.
Style or Stylus. See Gnomon.
Styria, dial made in, 133, 146.
Sugar of Roses, 310.
Sugar plate, 315.
Suicides, burial of, 181, 182, 414, 415.
Sultan of Morocco, cannon-dial of, 48,
49-
Sultana Rose, 342. Sun of York, 321. Sun-circles, 81, 193. Sunlight necessary for dial, 244. Sun-rays show time, 117. Sunshine recorder, 142-143. Sun-symbols, 183-184, 192-195. Sun-wheels, 81, 193. Sussex, England, dials in, 220-222, 226,
276.
Swastika, on dials, 81, 192-195. Swearing hole, 280. Sweetbrier Roses, 311, 364. Syrup of Roses, 311.
Talbot, sun-dial at, 372.
Talmud, quoted, 8.
Tart of hips, 315.
Taylor, John, the Water Poet, quoted, 170, 171, 174.
Tea Roses, 361 et seq., 365.
Telescope, invention of, 382.
Tempest influenced by Rosicrucian- ism, 389.
Temple Gardens, 322.
Temple, Sir William, 279-280.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred, quoted, 5; mottoes from, 204.
Terminal dials, 62, 71.
Terra-cotta, pedestals of, 208.
Thaxter, Celia, quoted, 243-244.
Theobalds, dial-motto at, 32.
Theosophy in America, 405.
Thistle on coins, 326.
Thoreau, cited, 301.
Thyme around dial, 237-238.
Time candles, 55.
Time divisions, of Angles, 73; of Ro- mans, 73.
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Index
Time on dial, 198, 216.
Time-meter, 104.
Time sticks, 54, 55.
Tincture of Roses, 311.
Tomb, dial made from, 212-214.
Torquetum of Apian, 78.
Tortoise, on dial, 186; as emblem,
186, 187, :88.
Tower of the Winds, 58, 59, 85. Tradescantia. See Spidervvort. Trailing arbutus, gathering of, 415. Trask, Spencer, dial of, 221-223. Tresham, Sir Thomas, dials of, 66,
67. Triomphe de Luxembourg Roses,
362.
Tropics, lines of, on dials, 65. Troschel, Hans, dials of, 150. Tucher, Hans. See Ducher, Hans. Tudor rose, 326, 327. Tulips, 202-205, 227, 240-241. Turk's Head dial, 216.
Undine, 375.
United States, currency of, zietseq.; meridian line of, 41 et seq.
United States National Museum, port- able dials in, 131, 138, 144.
Universal dialling cylinder, 130.
Universal ring-dials, 136, 137, 138.
Van Cortlandt Manor, dial and Roses
at, 234. Van Dyke, Henry, mottoes by, 223,
276.
Vanes, 58, 59, 76, 183. Vaughan, Richard, quoted, 28. Velvet Rose, 308, 350 et seq. Verge-watches, 152. Vertical dial fitted for church-dial, 63. Vibert, Roses of, 334. Victoria and Albert Museum, portable
dials at, 135 ; Jeypore models at,
86.
Virgin's Bower, 363. Vitruvius, dials of, 84-85. Volvelle, 189.
Waite, A. E., on Rosicrucians, 382.
Wallingford, Penn., dial at, 241.
Walpole, Horace, cited, 288.
Wanton Gospeller, 415.
War of the Roses, 322 et seq,
Warwickshire, dials in, 81.
Washington Association of New Jer- sey, 143.
Washington dial, 177-178.
Washington, D.C., laying out of, 24; meridian line in, 41 ; Meridian Hill, 42 et seq. ; portable dials at, 134 ; sunshine recorder at, 142-143.
Washington, George, pocket-dial of,
143- Washington Monument as gnomon,
41.
Watches in China, 56-57. Water as part of dials, 117. See also
Horologium Achaz. Water Poet. See Taylor, John. Water-clock. See Clepsydra. Watts, Dr., motto from, 273. Watts, George F., dial of, 19 et seq. Waxflowers, 309. Way wiser, 47 et seq., 398. See also
Odometer.
Weather-vanes. See Vanes. West Laurel Cemetery, cross-dial at,
280-281. Westminster Abbey, Coronation Chair
in. 379-38°-
Westmoreland, dials at, 266. Wharton House, dial at, 217. Whiskey from acorns, 410. White flowers in garden, 240. White, Gilbert, dial of, 223-224, 232. Whitehall, dials at, 115-119, 219-220. Whitney, Geoffrey, quoted, 164, 165,
170, 185. Whittier, John G., motto by, 295;
quoted, 402. Whittle, 73 et seq. Whittle-gate, 73 et seq. Wild Roses, hips of, 313 ; shoots, 313-
314. Williams College, dial at, 294.
Index
461
Williams, Martha McCulloch, quoted,
34°. 341. 362-
Williams, Roger, letters of, 412. Wilmslow, lens-dial at, 45, 49. Wilson, Hugh, dialling studied by, 13;
dials of, 93.
Wimborne Minster, dials in, 369, 370. Wind-dials. See Anemoscopes. Window-dials, 44, 46, 141, 291 et seq. Window-sills, dials on, 74, 141. Windsor, dials at, 216. Wine Rosat, 304. Wrinter coronets, 300. Winthrop, John, love-letters of, 412. Wismar, bronze trumpet of, 194. Wissahickon, settlement on, 402. Witt, Christopher, 406 et seq. Wives for colonists, 400. Wolsey, Cardinal, letter to, 404; dial
of, 104-105, 106, 107; arms of, 105. Woman in the Wilderness, 398. Wood, utensils of, used by Rosicru-
cians and Ephrata brothers, 410. Woodstock, market cross with dials,
374- Worcester, Mass., memorial dial at,
64; Roses at, 347.
Worcestershire, dials in, 74.
Wordsworth, William, quoted, n, 185; cited, 26.
Wreath Roses, 339, 340.
Wren, Sir Christopher, dials of, 46 et seq., 114; work of, 46-47; transla- tion by, 112; a Free Mason, 381.
Wright, M. O., dial of, 236; home, 285- 286.
Wright, Thomas, dial of, 151-152.
Wroxton Abbey, dial at, 198, 218, 414.
Yale University, dial at, 292.
Yellow Wreath Roses, 338-339.
Young, Arthur, cited, 52.
York and Lancaster Rose, 331-332, 359.
York, arms of, on dial, 105 ; sun of,
321.
York Minster, motto upon, 378. Yorkshire, England, dials in, 37, 88. Yuccas around dial, 238-240.
Zimmerman, Magister, 399.
Zinzendorf, Count, 406.
Zodiacal signs of, on dial, 187, 188, 189 ;
in France, 190; in India, 190; of
Aztecs, 190-191.
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