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I note hero with regret that this splendid garden, onwhich some 

 lakhs of rupees were spent is, and has been, ever since I left it, 

 without a trained European gardener to direct its operations ; and 

 I feel sure that, unless this want is supplied, there is every prospect 

 of the garden degenerating into a mere place of recreation in a few 

 years, instead of being maintained as a repository of all that is beauti- 

 ful and useful in the vegetable kingdom, which it was intended to be 

 by the late Maharaja Ham Singh. 



The next garden that appears to me to deserve attention is the 

 "Phool Bagh" at Gwalior. It is some years since I was there, 

 but I remember it as possessing several natural advantages which 

 only required the hand of the landscape gardener to be turned to 

 account to render them beautiful adjuncts to a garden. Scindia's 

 new Palace stands in the midst of this garden, the design of which 

 had not then been definitely decided upon. There were several 

 rustic and ornamental bridges spanning a stream which had been 

 skilfully brought in, and flowed through the garden, and which at 

 some places was utilised as a waterfall. There was at that time an 

 attempt at landscape gardening in the most elementary meaning 

 of the term.. But since then the services of one of the ablest 

 gardeners in India (Mr. Charles Maries, F.L.S., late of Durbhunga) 

 have been secured, and I learn that he has succeeded in transform- 

 ing the Phool Bagh into a veritable paradise ; plant houses, ferneries, 

 orchid houses, et hoc genus omne, have sprung up as if by magic ; 

 parterres and flower plots, lawns and shrubberies, with winding 

 paths, are now prominent features. Of course, I have not seen these 

 myself ; but a friend of mine, who was there recently, tells me that 

 all the possibilities which I had seen several years ago in the 

 Phool Bagh have been more than realized under the able 

 direction of Mr. Maries. The Maharaja Scindhia has a first class 

 specialist in Mr. Maries, and should make the most of him. 



Readers of the Pall Mall Budget have been made familiar with the 

 romantic and beautiful surroundings of the capital of Meywar — 

 Oodeypore, from the sketches and letter-press descriptions sent to 

 that journal by Mr. "W. S. Caine, late member for Barrow. The 

 " genial ruffian " has an eye for the beautiful and a facile pen. The 

 Maharana's Palace stands in the midst of a lake, and is surrounded by 



