HORTICULTURE AND DESIGN 27 



and acclimatizing new ones, and their actual 

 cultivation appeals keenly to nearly every one, and 

 especially to Anglo-Indians. Indeed, I should say 

 that the average Englishman in India takes a far 

 more practical interest in his garden there than 

 he would do at home in England. The rapid 

 growth and beauty of the strange new flowers 

 and trees attract him ; while life is spent so much 

 out of doors, that the garden plays a larger part 

 and the house a much smaller one than they do 

 with us in colder countries. 



What cause, then, in latter-day India has led 

 to this divorce of horticulture and design ? 

 Why is " the art, so well understood by the 

 Mughals, of planning and planting gardens in 

 direct harmonious relation to the house, palace, 

 or mausoleum to which they belong, now rarely 

 if ever practised ? " 



There are two main causes which have con- 

 tributed to the neglect of Indian garden-craft. 

 The first is the obvious change of habits and 

 manners. The railway train brings the cool 

 hill station within comparatively easy reach. 

 There is no need now for the long journeys of 

 the- Court to Kashmir, — such journeys as the 

 Emperor Jahangir and his consort, the famous 



