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of hollyhock and tuberoses. The customary 

 mixed avenues of trees were only for larger 

 gardens, but in palace squares, like that of Anguri 

 Bagh, a cypress tree planted in the border nearly 

 always marked the angles of the design, while 

 the centre of each plot was sometimes occupied 

 by a fruit tree or a palm. 



The replanting of the Anguri Bagh might 

 prove difficult chiefly on account of the need for 

 providing an adequate water-supply so high up 

 in the fort. But would it not be worth doing 

 if it helped to revive the dying art of Indian 

 gardening ? Are the wonderful surroundings of 

 this square, so full of beauty and historic interest, 

 not worth completing by the restoration of the 

 garden ? As a living example of Mughal art at 

 its best, it would mean more, educationally and 

 artistically, than all the priceless Mughal treasures 

 locked away, isolated, in many fine but lifeless 

 museums. What would the present archaeolo- 

 gists and artists of France and Italy not give to 

 have this perfect setting of the Anguri Bagh 

 for their labours ? Now, when so much is done 

 to revive old conditions, when the columns of 

 the Roman forum and the ruins of Pompeiian 



villas are restored so carefully and artistically, 



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