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White iris still light up distant corners of the 

 garden with their frail beauty. But purple 

 and mauve iris should be massed near the lilac 

 bushes ; narcissus and daffodils planted under 

 apple and quince trees; and the soft turf 

 under the snowy pear and plum trees should 

 blaze again with crown-imperials and the scarlet 

 Kashmir tulips. The Mughal flowers were 

 spring flowers ; but roses, carnations, jasmine, 

 hollyhocks, delphiniums, peonies, and pinks 

 brought in summer. 



The baradari on the third terrace of the 

 Nishat Bagh is a two-storied Kashmir structure 

 standing on the stone foundations of an earlier 

 building. The lower floor is fifty-nine feet long 

 and forty-eight feet wide, enclosed on two sides 

 by wooden - latticed windows. In the middle 

 there is a reservoir about fourteen feet square 

 and three feet deep, with five fountains, the one 

 in the centre being the only old stone fountain 

 left in the garden. On a summer day there 

 are few more attractive rooms than the fountain 

 hall of this Kashmir garden house. The gay 

 colours of the carved woodwork shine through 

 the spray in delightful contrast to the dull green 

 running water. Through a latticed arch a 



