The whole effect of the palace square at Agra suffers sadly from the loss of its flowers and fountain jets; as can be realised on comparing the two illustrations, one of the beautiful but empty Anguri Bagh, all its straight lines left exposed in hard monotony, and the illustration taken from an old Indian painting of an evening scene in a Rajputana garden. The latter shows a typically planted palace square. The four dark cypress spires planted at angles of the paths round the little central pavilion, delightfully repeat the lines of the four slender pillars, the feathery heads of the palms tower high above the outer walls, the walks are bordered by sweet-scented tuberoses and hollyhocks planted alternately, and in front, close to the little fountain, a bed of poppies makes a solid mass of colour, softening the harsh edge of the white marble platform with their frail, transparent flowers.
