Words ' for curl-paper, to the last moments of
my existence. I am."

The next is from a gentleman signing
himself a "Practical Man."

"Mr. Conductor,—Sir, A pamphlet, by Mr.
Joseph Paxton, has just come to hand,
forwarded by a friend who requested that I
would read it and send you my opinion. I
have the honour to inform, you that I have
read the publication with much care, and find
that it contains the following proposal; viz.—
'To complete the Industrial Exhibition at the
close of the term originally assigned thereto,
and retaining the building to complete its
glazing and make certain other changes,
preliminary to the formation of a permanent
Winter Park and Garden.' Mr. Paxton says
that, in the Winter Park and Garden he
proposes, 'climate would be the principal
thing studied, all the furnishing and fitting
up would have special reference to that end;
so that the pleasures found in it would be of
a character which all who visit it could
share; here would be supplied the climate of
Southern Italy, where multitudes might ride,
walk, or recline, amidst groves of fragrant
trees, and here they might leisurely examine
the works of nature and art ' (art meaning
statues)' regardless of the biting east-winds or
the drifting snow.' Mr. Paxton proposes
also to introduce into the building a collection
of live birds and geological specimens.
'The advantages derivable from such an
appropriation of the Crystal Palace,' says
Mr. Paxton, 'would be many, and may be
thus summed up:

"'First. In a sanitary point of view, its
benefits would be incalculable.'

"My opinion upon this is, that a gentleman
or lady who walks out of an English winter
'to recline amidst groves of fragrant trees,'
for an hour or two, and then walks out again
into the winter's day, would be much more
damaged than benefited in the article of lung.
To leave England for a change of climate, to
walk, ride, eat, and sleep, week after week, 'in
the climate of Southern Italy,' is one thing, and
to play bobcherry with climates, is another. If
a sanitary view is to be taken of the subject,
and the building is to be appropriated to the
use of healthy people, not adapted to a
certain class of invalids, it will be fair to dwell
on the advantage of a covered space for those
to use during foul weather, who otherwise
might stay at home. But a healthy man in
his own country will soon be an unhealthy
man if he do not consent to inhale copious
and free draughts of his native atmosphere.

"'Although the Crystal Palace,' Mr. P. goes
on to say, ' at present, with its magnificent
display of useful and ornamental articles, is
truly wonderful; yet if the building be
converted into a winter park and garden, and
arranged as I propose, I feel confident it
would become a still more extraordinary and
beautiful object.' This is Mr. Paxton's last
card, and it is a trump. Most beautiful it
would be made, there is no doubt; and nobody
knows better than Mr. Paxton knows how
(if made) such a winter garden ought to be
laid out.

"My opinion is, therefore, and I have pleasure
in handing it to you, that Mr. Paxton's
proposed winter garden would be beautiful
and agreeable. The pamphlet closes with an
estimate that it would cost £12,000 a year,
'which might be obtained, either by a
national grant, or by making the building itself
self-supporting.' As a commercial man, I think
the idea of a national grant for such an object
wouldn't pay; and as a tax-payer, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer shall have my
support if he declines to honour Mr. P.'s draft.
The question therefore is, whether the glazed
park, proposed by Mr. P., could produce for
itself, by admission money, or in any other
way, £12,000 a year. I decline solving the
same. Sugar being the article in which I
deal, I will not venture to decide upon the
trade prospect of a concern so foreign to my
own experience. I am."

In the pamphlet of Denarius, we may
remind our practical friend that some
suggestions are contained which would add
greatly to the usefulness, as well as to the
commercial solvency, of the proposed winter
garden. Denarius so calls himself, because
he proposes a charge of a penny for admission
to the covered promenade; denarius being
that conventional Latin for a penny, whose
initial d. follows £. s. Denarius is penny
wise, and we think not pound foolish. He
would have in the projected garden an annual
Sculpture show, and Flower shows, of course.
"With the co-operation of the Agricultural,
Horticultural, and Botanical Societies," he
says, "various popular schools, lectures, and
exhibitions connected with the objects of these
societies, would arise naturally out of such an
arrangement, and might be made to have
a most important bearing both on the
productive resources of the country and on our
decorative manufactures." Elsewhere he
suggests that "spaces at the extreme sides of the
building might be kept vacant, to be applied
to various public purposes, such as periodical
exhibitions of agricultural produce, colonial
raw produce, machinery, perhaps models of
objects claiming patent rights, manufactures,
and fine arts. These should not be
permanent exhibitions, to become stale and
provoke comparisons with the present Great
Exhibition, but essentially temporary
exhibitions for short periods, answering to the
wants and circumstances of the times as they
may arise. As agriculture and horticulture
have made such great progress since periodical
exhibitions of them were established, we may
infer that analogous exhibitions would
promote silk-weaving or cotton-printing, &c., and
will be likely to arise. The great City
corporations, the Goldsmiths, the Ironmongers,