TUDOR GARDENS AND MUGHAL BAGHS 21 



other. Towers in the east, and garden houses 

 in the west were an invariable feature marking 

 the corners of the walls. The cistern fountains 

 in the European illuminations might have played 

 in the Garden of Fidelity ; the " pleached allies " 

 and " proper knots " of English gardens were 

 the vine pergolas and geometrical parterres of 

 the Mughals ; while their central baradaris or 

 raised chabutras (platforms) answered the same 

 purpose as the banqueting hall on the " mound," 

 without which at one time no English noble's 

 garden was complete. 



The question of the park was different. The 

 old English engravings usually depict walled 

 gardens surrounded by a large, and more or less 

 wild, deer-park, through which ran avenues 

 extending the main lines of the garden. The 

 Mughals, on the other hand, had no need of outer 

 enclosures for preserving game while the primeval 

 forests and jungles still clothed the hillsides, 

 so that their great chenar and mango avenues 

 were generally placed within the garden walls. 

 The space which these walls enclosed was a 

 large one, 600 yards by 400 yards being a very * 

 usual size, while many of the Mughal baghs 

 were on a much bigger scale than this. In these 



