THE BAGH-I-VAFA 19 



garden had matured, and his naive delight in the 

 beauty and success of his schemes and plantations 

 is very charming. " Next morning I reached 

 the Bagh-i-Vafa ; it was the season when the 

 garden was in all its glory. Its grass-plots were 

 all covered with clover ; its pomegranate trees 

 were entirely of a beautiful yellow colour. It 

 was then the pomegranate season and the pome- 

 granates 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. Its pomegranates were ex- 

 cellent, though not equal to the fine ones of our 

 country. I was never so much pleased with 

 the Garden of Fidelity as on this occasion." A 

 little further on the Emperor adds : " As I 

 had an intention of travelling through the 

 Lemghan in the winter, I desired them to save 

 about twenty orange trees around the piece of 

 water for my use." 



The second illustration given of this garden 

 is taken from another copy of the Memoirs, now 

 in the British Museum, and shows the sugar-cane 

 and plantains which had been brought from 

 Lahore with such care ; gardeners busily digging 

 and sowing seeds in the little plots of ground 



