166 GARDENS OF THE DAL LAKE 



fairy-like than by day. Bernier, in his account 

 of the Shalimar, notes with astonishment four 

 wonderful doors in this baradari. They were 

 composed of large stones supported by pillars, 

 taken from some of the " Idol temples " de- 

 molished by Shah Jahan. He also mentions 

 several circular basins or reservoirs, " out of 

 which arise other fountains formed into a variety 

 of shapes and figures." 



When Bernier visited Kashmir the gardens 

 were laid out in regular trellised walks and 

 generally surrounded by the large-leafed aspen, 

 planted at intervals of two feet. In Vigne's 

 time the Bagh-i-Dilawar Khan, where the Euro- 

 pean visitors were lodged, was still planted in 

 the usual Eastern manner, with trellis -work 

 shading the walks along the walls, " on which 

 were produced the finest grapes in the city." 



Pergolas were in all probability one of the 

 oldest forms of garden decoration. A drawing 

 of an ancient Egyptian pleasure-ground shows 

 a large pergola surrounded by tanks in the centre 

 of a square enclosure. The trellis -work takes 

 the form of a temple with numerous columns. 

 In the Roshanara Gardens at Delhi a broken 

 pergola of square stone pillars still exists, and 



