22 ON SOME EARLY GARDEN HISTORY 



large baghs the actual flower garden may be said 

 to be confined to the lines of the principal canals 

 and the squares which bordered on them, the 

 sides of the garden being treated more like a 

 park and planted with large avenues of trees 

 under which tents could be pitched. 



Many of the royal gardens owed their origin 

 to the fact that they were specially designed to 

 accommodate the Court on the constant royal 

 progresses entailed by the vast size of the Empire. 

 Where there was no garden kept in readiness 

 against the coming of the Emperor even the 

 temporary camp was carefully pitched with that 

 regard for form, combined with a beautiful site, 

 of which the Mughals were so mindful. Bernier, 

 the French physician, travelling in the train of 

 the Emperor Aurungzeb to Kashmir, mentions 

 how " one of the Peeche-Kanes has no sooner 

 reached the place intended for the new en- 

 campment than the grand Quartermaster selects 

 some fine situation for the King's tents, paying, 

 however, as much attention as possible to the 

 exact symmetry of the whole camp. He then 

 marks out a square, each side of which measures 

 more than three hundred ordinary paces. A 

 hundred pioneers presently clear and level this 



