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Very early, before the east has even reddened, when the sweet sound of the dawn worship begins and the shehnai plays the morning ragas, the gathering of flowers begins in Mother Kali's garden. In front of the Panchavati, on the Ganges bank, are a bel tree and a fragrant gulchi tree. Sri Ramakrishna loves the mallika, the madhavi and the gulchi flowers dearly. He had brought the madhavi creeper from holy Vrindavan and planted it himself. On the ground east of the duck pond and the kuthi, by the edge of the pond, is a champak tree. A little way off are hanging hibiscus, roses and kanchan flowers. Over the fence grows the aparajita, with jasmine nearby, and here and there the night-flowering shefali. All along the west side of the twelve temples are white and red oleander, roses, jasmine and bel flowers, and now and then a thorn apple for the worship of Mahadeva. Here and there tulsi has been planted on raised platforms of brick. South of the nahabat are bel, jasmine, gardenia and roses. Near the paved ghat are lotus oleander and kokilaksha. Beside the Paramahamsa's room stand one or two krishnachura trees, and round about are bel, jasmine, gardenia, roses, mallika, hibiscus, white and red oleander, and again five-petalled hibiscus and the Chinese kind.