[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Histoire de la dernière révolution des États du Grand Mogol](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier) › [Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable) › 19.1.4 # Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 19.1.4 Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable) 19.1.4 - **Language:** English ### [19.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.19.1.4) The numberless streams which issue from the mountains maintain the valley and the hillocks in the most delightful verdure. The whole kingdom wears the appearance of a fertile and highly cultivated garden. Villages and hamlets are frequently seen through the luxuriant foliage. Meadows and vineyards, fields of rice, wheat, hemp, saffron, and many sorts of vegetables, among which are intermingled trenches filled with water, rivulets, canals, and several small lakes, vary the enchanting scene. The whole ground is enamelled with our European flowers and plants, and covered with our apple, pear, plum, apricot, and walnut trees, all bearing fruit in great abundance. The private gardens are full of melons, pateques or water melons, water parsnips, red beet, radishes, most of our potherbs, and others with which we are unacquainted. The fruit is certainly inferior to our own, nor is it in such variety; but this I am satisfied is not attributable to the soil, but merely to the comparative ignorance of the gardeners, for they do not understand the culture and the grafting of trees as we do in France. I have eaten, however, a great deal of very excellent fruit during my residence in Kachemire, and should entertain no doubt of its arriving at the same degree of perfection as that of Europe if the people were more attentive to the planting and soil of the trees and introduced grafts from foreign countries. - [Previous: 19.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.19.1.3) - [Next: 19.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.19.1.5) - [Up: 19.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.19.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.19.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.19.1.4) · Pramāṇa