Fifteen years afterwards Babar mentions another visit to this favourite spot [Bagh-i-Vafa in Kabul]: three days' rest snatched from the midst of his endless campaigns against the turbulent Afghans. The garden had matured, and his naive delight in the beauty and success of his schemes and plantations is very charming. 'Next morning I reached the Bagh-i-Vafa; it was the season when the garden was in all its glory. Its grass-plots were all covered with clover; its pomegranate trees were entirely of a beautiful yellow colour. It was then the pomegranate season and the pomegranates were hanging red on the trees. The orange trees were green and cheerful, loaded with innumerable oranges; but the best oranges were not yet ripe. Its pomegranates were excellent, though not equal to the fine ones of our country. I was never so much pleased with the Garden of Fidelity as on this occasion.' A little further on the Emperor adds: 'As I had an intention of travelling through the Lemghan in the winter, I desired them to save about twenty orange trees around the piece of water for my use.'
The second illustration given of this garden is taken from another copy of the Memoirs, now in the British Museum, and shows the sugar-cane and plantains which had been brought from Lahore with such care; gardeners busily digging and sowing seeds in the little plots of ground between the water channels, and a small copper fountain of a primitive type is playing in the centre of the tank.
