20 THE SHAKESPEARE GARDEN 



Babar is too absorbed in his gardening to pay any 

 attention to the guests. 



Fifteen years later Babar stole three days away 

 from his campaign against the Afghans and visited 

 his beautiful garden. "Next morning," he wrote in 

 his "Memoirs," "I reached Bagh-i-vafa. It was the 

 season when the garden was in all its glory. Its 

 grass-plots were all covered with clover; its pome- 

 granate trees were entirely of a beautiful yellow 

 color. It was then the pomegranate season and 

 pomegranates were hanging red on the trees. The 

 orange-trees were green and cheerful, loaded with 

 innumerable oranges; but the best oranges were not 

 yet ripe. I never was so much pleased with the 

 'Garden of Fidelity' as on this occasion." 



Several new ideas were introduced into English 

 gardens in the first quarter of the Sixteenth Century. 

 About 1525 the geometrical beds called "knots" 

 came into fashion, also rails for beds, also mounds, 

 or "mounts," and also arbors. Cardinal Wolsey had 

 all these novelties in his garden at Hampton Court 

 Palace. It was a marvelous garden, as any one who 

 will read Cavendish may see for himself; but Henry 

 VIII was not satisfied with it when he seized the 

 haughty Cardinal's home in 1529. So four years 

 later the King had an entirely new garden made at 



