Go with green, I tell myself. Writing about city precincts, I mentally assign each a colour to suit its story. Victoria Road gets green. Stronger reasons dictate the choice than the obvious canopy of trees shading this path east till Reay Road. The back gates of the botanical Victoria Gardens - Rani Baug or Jijamata Udyan zoo in the former "Garden Suburb" of Byculla - fall here. Verdure is suggested again by the street renamed Sant Savta Marg: Savta Mali was patron saint of the Mali (gardener) community running Byculla's vegetable markets.

The arboreal allusion continues at Dilip Salunke's Shri Sainath Flower Shop. Stringing garlands of fragrant buds as his grandfather Govind did, he says, "We've survived on Rustom Baug and Jer Baug," saluting the Parsi colonies across. "I'm best stocked at Muktad," he adds, referring to the last fortnight of the Shahenshahi Zoroastrian calendar, commemorating departed ancestors before New Year dawns.