THE MALI AND HIS " GUMALIS " 171 



width of the garden. The water-chute run- 

 ning down from the second story of the small 

 pavilion on the ladies' terrace is constructed of 

 paved brick arranged in the usual wave patterns, 

 and there are traces of a similar brick pavement 

 on each side of the canal, which at the Nishat 

 is thirteen feet wide and eight inches deep. 

 Each end of the high retaining wall is flanked by 

 octagonal towers, with inner stairways leading to 

 the upper garden. 



The number of stone and marble thrones is 

 a special feature of the Nishat Bagh. There is 

 one placed across the head of almost every 

 waterfall. The gardens have recently been partly 

 restored, and an attempt has been made to 

 replace the vases which once adorned the plat- 

 forms and terrace walls of all these Mughal 

 baghs. Those already made for the Nishat are 

 decorative and add something of the old char- 

 acter, but they are too small for the scale of the 

 gardens. The Indian mali is often laughed at 

 for his devotion to his " gumalis " and tubs, 

 though they are very practical in the plains, 

 where the white ants are likely to devour every- 

 thing growing in the ground, for his crazy 

 patchwork bedding, and his rows of untidy 



