One old English dial fitting we have never copied in America. It was the taste of the days of the Stuart kings, days of constant jesting and amusement and practical jokes. Concealed water jets were placed which wet the clothing of the unwary one who lingered to consult the dial-face. The significance of the sun-dial, as well as its classicism, was sure to be felt by artists. In the paintings of Holbein, of Albert Duerer, dials may be seen, not idly painted, but with symbolic meaning. The mystic import of a sun-dial is shown in full effect in that perfect picture, _Beata Beatrix_, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. I have chosen to show here (facing page 380) the _Beata Beatrix_ owned by Charles L. Hutchinson, Esq., of Chicago, as being less photographed and known than the one of the British Gallery, from which it varies slightly and also because it has the beautiful predella. In this picture, in the words of its poet-painter:-- "Love's Hour stands. Its eyes invisible Watch till the dial's thin brown shade Be born--yea, till the journeying line be laid Upon the point." [Illustration: Beata Beatrix.] Andrew Marvell wrote two centuries ago of the floral sun-dials which were the height of the gardening mode of his day:-- "How well the skilful gardener drew Of flowers and herbs this dial new. When from above the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run; And as it works the industrious bee Computes its time as well as we! How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers!" These were sometimes set of diverse flowers, sometimes of Mallows. Two of growing Box are described and displayed in the chapter on Box edgings. [Illustration: The Faithful Gardener.] Linnaeus made a list of forty-six flowers which constituted what he termed the Horologe or Watch of Flora, and he gave what he called their exact hours of rising and setting. He divided them into three classes: Meteoric, Tropical, and Equinoctial flowers. Among those which he named are:--