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rose-bush mound or happy with her Majnum 

 in the parterres ; with scarlet asoka trees, Kama 

 Deva's perfumed buds, and tulsi in the terrace 

 vases ; while the Lilies of Our Lady and the 

 Lotus of the Good Law would share the gardens 

 with the pink rose of the Persian poets and the 

 red rose of England. Nor need we confine our- 

 selves and our Indian craftsmen to imaginative 

 reproductions of the past. New needs and our 

 modern wealth of flowers would give fresh life 

 and added beauty to ancient symbols and 

 ideas, charms to rival and surpass all the older 

 Shalimars. 



The Mughal Imperial gardens consisted, as we 

 have seen, of three large enclosures, opening one 

 out of the other : the semi-public garden of the 

 Diwan-i-'Am; the Emperor's garden with its 

 Diwan-i-Khas, where he received his princes 

 and chiefs ; and the purdah garden of the 

 Empress and her ladies. If the palace at New 

 Delhi could form part of a scheme with a great 

 Imperial Indian garden, with its symbolic divi- 

 sions, water-ways, avenues, fountains, and walls, 

 Indian art would receive a stimulus and Indian 

 loyalty a lead which it would be impossible to 

 overrate, although hard to believe in England, 



