198 SUMMER GARDENS OF KASHMIR 



long ere this, for every Indian garden was once 

 full of fruit trees ; Moslem and Hindu artists 

 never tire of their symbolic contrast with the 

 cypress ; and Babar noted long ago : " One 

 apple tree had been in excellent bearing. On 

 some branches five or six scattered leaves still 

 remained, and exhibited a beauty which the 

 painter, with all his skill, might attempt in vain 

 to portray." 



