Indian Gardens 
longing to the Maharajah. Of this an 
illustration is here given. A row of 
small jets is placed just under the cor¬ 
nice, outside the pavilion, so that the whole 
structure can be enclosed in a hue spray of 
water. 
The third, and lowest, terrace of the gar¬ 
dens is a square of two hundred and thirty 
yards, or the same size as the first. It is at 
the present time laid out in nearly the same 
manner; but the gardens, though government 
property, have been leased out for many 
years for the cultivation of fruit, and the 
plantation has accordingly been made en¬ 
tirely without regard to artistic effect. The 
most noticeable features of this terrace are 
two gateways (one of which is here illustrated), 
decorated with the beautiful enameled tiles in 
the Persian style, of which there are many 
fine examples in Lahore. 
The “ Badshahnamah,” a history of the 
Mogul emperors, written by a native historian 
of Shah Jahan’s time, gives a long but not 
very lucid account of the original construc¬ 
tion and plantation of the Shahlimar Gar¬ 
dens at Lahore. He describes the upper 
terrace as a continuous flower-bed, with plane 
trees and aspens planted at regular intervals 
at the sides. A pleasant suggestion is con¬ 
veyed in the description he gives of an as¬ 
pen, with a plane tree on either side of it, 
planted on the banks of the Shah Nahr, or 
principal water-channel, by the emperor him¬ 
self, when a young man. A platform was 
built under each tree, on which the em¬ 
peror and the ladies of his zanana could 
recline at ease. The ground in front was 
covered, not with gorgeous textiles of silk 
and gold from the famous looms of Lahore, 
but with a soft carpet of clover. Evidently 
Shah Jahan’s appreciation of the charms of 
nature, inherited from his great ancestor, 
Babar, had not been entirely lost in the lux¬ 
urious pomp of the Mogul Court. 
Delhi—The Cashmere Gate 
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