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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Note 739 — SECTION II. KĀBUL666

Annette Susannah Beveridge translation

a kind of plum (?). It seems unlikely to be a cherry since Bābur does not mention cherries as good in his old dominions, and Firminger (p. 244) makes against it as introduced from India. Steingass explains alū-bālū by “sour-cherry, an armarylla”; if sour, is it the Morello cherry?

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