CHAPTER IV

THE RESIDENCY GARDEN

Amone the beauties of Kashmir the Residency Garden must surely not be omitted. The Maharaja has provided for the Residency one of the most charming houses in India—a regular English country-house. And successive Residents, in my case aided by "Mr. Harrison and Major Wigram, have striven to make the garden worthy of the country and the house. Here grows, in perfection every English flower. The wide lawns are as soft and green as any English lawn. All the English fruits—pears, apples, peaches, apricots, plums, greengages, cherries, walnuts, mulberries, gooseberries, currants, raspberries, and strawberries —grow to perfection and in prodigious quantities ; and the magnificent chenar and innumerable birds add a special charm of their own,

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