it may hereafter appear desirable to erect there; and further 

 spaces of about one hundred and fifty feet in depth along each of the 

 parallel roads running North and South, for such buildings, public 

 or private, as the Commissioners may hereafter, in the prosecution 



It is the remainder or centre of this ground that the Commis- 

 sioners, under certain conditions, have offered to place at the 

 disposal of the Horticultural Society. This space, inclusive of a 

 proposed Winter Garden, and also of Italian Arcades with which 

 the Commissioners themselves propose to surround it, wilUcontain 

 about twenty acres available for the new Garden of the Society. 



The conditions on which the Commissioners have made their 

 liberal offer will be communicated in the course of the Meeting, 

 The main provisions are, that the Society shall engage to lay out 

 and maintain the Garden in a fitting style, and that it shall also 

 erect a Conservatory, or Winter Garden — the whole at a cost 

 estimated at 50,000^., and should the offer be accepted, the 

 Commissioners will be prepared to grant the Society a lease of 

 the ground for thirty-one years, and further, as before stated, to 

 surround, at their own expense, the space allotted for the Garden 

 with Italian Arcades open to the grounds and built at their own 

 expense at an estimated cost of 50,000Z. ; the conditions as to 

 the payment of interest on any sum so expended not exceeding 

 50,0001., and as to the amount of rent to be paid by the Society, 

 being of the most liberal nature. 



The great advantages of the site proposed are obvious. The 

 Garden will be in the immediate neighbourhood of Hyde 

 Park and Kensington Gardens, and in the very centre of a new 

 and rapidly rising town of first-class houses which bids fair 

 to become one of the most popular and fashionable districts 

 in London. The shape and situation of the ground which 

 slopes gradually from the North to the South, admits of the 

 formation of successive terraces on different levels, affording 

 peculiar facilities for effective and ornamental treatment, and is 

 well adapted besides for the effective display of sculpture ; while 

 a fine Winter Garden at the upper end, and a colonnade extend- 

 ing round it, will afford a promenade of three-quarters of a mile 

 in length, sheltered from heat and cold, wind and wet. The 

 Colonnade will also offer peculiar facilities for the display of the 

 Flowers and Fruit at the Annual Shows, free from all those 

 risks of weather which have not unfrequeutly marred the Chiswick 



