20 ON SOME EARLY GARDEN HISTORY 



between the water channels, and a small copper 

 fountain of a primitive type is playing in the 

 centre of the tank. 



Apart from the main system of irrigation, it 

 is curious to notice from these old accounts 

 and miniatures how in many ways the Mughal 

 gardens of the sixteenth century resembled those 

 of Tudor England. These English gardens, 

 alas ! have nearly all vanished, their last vestiges 

 swept away by the sham romanticism of the 

 eighteenth century and the zeal of those who 

 followed the traditions of the once-lauded land- 

 scape gardener, " Capability " Brown. One by 

 one the magnificent old gardens of the great 

 houses were destroyed, but a glance at nearly 

 any of the plans shown in Kip's drawings of 

 famous English halls and castles, published in 

 1707, will prove how much the old English and 

 Indian gardens had in common. Two centuries 

 earlier a still closer affinity can be seen in the 

 garden backgrounds of the illuminations in a 

 Flemish manuscript of the Roman de la Rose. 

 In both styles the garden was confined by high 

 boundary walls, and in both the whole scheme of 

 house and garden, buildings and planting, were 

 treated throughout in definite relation to each 



