Birds add much to the pleasure of the garden. Pigeons and doves give a poetic touch as they strut along the paths and flutter about. Nothing gives more quality and elegance, however, than a peacock, and, to quote from a contemporary writer: "The peacock is a bird of more beautiful feathers than any other that is. He is quickly angry, but he is goodly to behold, very good to eat, and serveth as a watch in the inner court, for that he, spying strangers to come into the lodging, he faileth not to cry out and advertise them of the house." The peacock is as much of a joy to the garden lover as the sun-dial. XII _The Sun-dial_ The sun-dial forms a perfect ornament at the intersection of the garden paths. Every one responds to the quaint beauty and mystery of the sun-dial with its dark shadow that creeps quietly across the dial and tells the hours so softly. As Charles Lamb says: "It is the measure appropriate for sweet plants and flowers to spring by and birds to apportion their silver warblings by." Nothing has a more antique air than the sun-dial. The simple baluster pillar is a good model, and the base should be surrounded by a circle of grass. This grassy ring is the "wabe," Where Lewis Carroll's "slithy toves" did "gyre and gimbel" in the immortal poem "Jabberwocky." [Illustration: FOUNTAINS, SIXTEENTH CENTURY] The sun-dial can also be placed at the end of a path, if the path is important enough to warrant it. In our Shakespeare garden I suggest using a Shakespearian quotation for the inscription, such as, for example: For never-resting Time leads summer on. or Nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defense. or Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end. or Come what, come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. XIII _The Terrace_