benefit alone they sliould work, and by whose assistance alone 

 they can hope to prosj)er. 



" We already see, to the south, rising as it were by magic, 

 the comraencement of a noble work entirely the result of the 

 voluntary efforts of that public ; and this Garden, itself the 

 o£fsj)ring of the Great Exhibition of 1851, will hardly be 

 completed ere that Exhibition shall have been rivalled, and, I 

 trust, even surpassed, by the beauty and success of that which 

 we hope next year to witness. 



" This Garden will then ojoen an additional source of 

 enjoyment to the thousands who may be expected to crowd 

 the new Crystal Palace of Industry. Nay, we may hope that 

 it will, at no distant day, form the inner court of a vast 

 quadrangle of public buUdings, rendered easily accessible by 

 the broad roads which will surround them ; — buildings where 

 Science and Art may find space for development, with that 

 air and light which are elsewhere well-nigh banished from this 

 overgrown metropolis. 



" If the works before us are stiU incomplete, this must 

 not be attributed entirely to the short space of time allowed 

 for their execution, or to the exhaustion of the funds set 

 apart for them. It results also, in great measure, from a 

 well-considered purpose, on the part of the Society and the 

 Commissioners, rather to present the public with a framework, 

 to be gradually filled up, as individual taste, controlled and 

 harmonised by the general superintendence of the authorities, 

 might direct, than at once to display a complete creation, 

 which, however attractive for the moment, woidd ];)all upon us 

 and grow stale by habit. 



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