Sun dials and roses of yesterday garden delights which are here displayed in very truth and are moreover regarded as emblems - Earle, Alice Morse (Macmillan, 1902)
Includes index. - Title within green ornamental border. - "The Rosicrucians": p. 366 - 389
The charm and sentiment of sun-dials. -- Noon-marks, spot-dials, window-dials. -- Classification of sun-dials. -- The construction of sun-dials. -- Ingeniose diallers. -- Portable dials. -- The sun-dial as an emblem. -- Symbolic designs for sun-dials. -- Pedestals and gnomons. -- The setting of sun-dials. -- Sun-dial mottoes. -- The sun-dial as a memorial. -- Pliny saieth: concerning roses and garlands. -- Rosa solis, rose plate, and rosee. -- The emblem of the rose in English history. -- Our grandmothers' roses. -- The Rosicrucians. -- The sun-dial of Ahaz. -- Rural saints and prophets. -- A story of four dials