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Palace is a still more striking instance of the success of liberality. 

 Nothing but what I would call the judiciously-liberal expenditure 

 could have brought the prodigious income that has been received. 

 So, in the present instance, everything should be conducted on the 

 most liberal scale. The choicest and most beautiful exotics, the 

 most graceful statues, the best botanical nomenclature, should be 

 found wherever reqiured. The sum for the principal and first outlay 

 must be borrowed, and government, once aware of the practicability of 

 the scheme, would doubtless be willing to advance it. The interest on 

 this, the ground-rent, and the cost of maintenance would be the three 

 items of current expenditure. 



I would propose having a graduated scale of subscribers and con- 

 tributors. 



1st. A subscriber of ^£10 a year should admit whom he liked and 

 when he liked. 



2ud. A subscriber of .£5 a year should admit five persons on any 

 day or every day ; of £i, four persons ; of ^£3, three persons ; of £2, 

 two persons ; of £l, one person. Such introductions should be 

 either by filling up a printed form or personally. 



3rd. A subscriber of lO*. a year should admit personally his wife 

 and children, but should give no orders. 



Non-subscribers should be admitted on the following terms : — 



Acknowledged botanical authors, editors of literary journals, bota- 

 nical lecturers, and students of medicine with certificates of attending 

 botanical lectures, at all times gratis. 



Children in non-paying schools, introduced by a subscriber, and 

 under suitable superintendence, gratis on Mondays and Thursdays. 

 Children in paying schools, under similar restriction, one penny each 

 on Tuesdays and Fridays. 



Other persons should pay — 



Sd. Monday and Thursday. 



6d. Tuesday and Friday. 



Is. Wednesday and Saturday. 



No money taken ©n Sundays, and no refreshments to be sold ; no 

 wine, beer, spirits, or tobacco to be sold or allowed at any time 

 within the garden ; and the ordinary attractions of tea-gardens, as 

 balloons, fireworks, burning cities, volcanoes, &c., should on no ac- 

 count whatever be introduced. 



Alternative. — It is quite certain the site of Smithfield will be 

 occupied. If its occupation be not as proposed, it will probably be 

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