The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 22.3.8

22.3.8

green) coloured, the other is a wild kind. Although the latter has less colour it is very sweet-scented. The flower of the Jafarī (a yellow flower) is large and sweet-scented; its stem is above a man’s height, but in some years, when it has grown large and has flowered, a worm is produced, and spreads over the flower a kind of spider’s web, and destroys it and dries up its stem. This year it has so happened. The flowers that are seen in the territories of Kashmir are beyond all calculation. Those that Nadiru-l-‘aṣrī Ustād Manṣūr has painted are more than 100. Before my father’s time there were no shāh-ālū (cherries). Muḥammad Qulī Afshār brought them from Kabul and planted them, and there are now ten or fifteen fruit-bearing trees. There were also some apricot-trees. The aforesaid made them known in this country, and now there are many of them. In fact, the apricot of Kashmir is good.