But would such a winter garden be attended by the advantages that are expected from it to public health and convenience? That is to say, would it be agreeable to ride and walk under shelter while rain or snow is falling all around? Would it be comfortable to have a cool garden of 18 acres as a place of resort in the dog-days? Have dust or mud irresistible attractions to us English? These are matters of taste which all men can Judge of for themselves.

If we look at the matter as it affects the value of contiguous property, then such questions as the following arise. Would it be advantageous to the neighborhood to be within a few minutes walk of Naples or Madeira? Would invalids find any comfort therein? Would the aged and infirm? And if health and comfort should be increased by turning the Crystal Palace into such a place as Mr. Paxton contemplates, would the value of houses and land at Knights-bridge, Kensington, Brompton, and Bays-water, rise or fall? The owners of property there will probably express their opinion as to those points.

Should all these questions be answered in the affirmative, (and who can doubt it;) if the comfort, the health, the enjoyment, the wealth of the metropolis would be thus largely increased, by converting the Crystal Palace into such a park as could only be naturally found in Portugal or Madeira, then the last inquiry that we should make would be, Who Will Recommend Its Removal, when a short Act of Parliament shall be introduced to enable it to remain where it is? - Gard. Chron.

What is to become of the Crystal Palace? - The time is approaching when the World's Fair will terminate, and the vast roof under which it is held, being no longer required for that purpose, must, according to the terms of agreement with the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, be removed; and, by this time next year, the ground is to be made as smooth, and the gross is to look as green, as-before the 25th of September 1850. The exhibited articles will all be removed, and many of them will be looked upon as precious relics, connected with an event, the greatest of our times, and they will be cherished more and more as they become separnted further from the day of their great triumph, whilst the building (I hope I may say without vanity) - the great feature of the Exhibition - must, if removed, be either transported to another country, or be rent asunder and dispersed in fragments to perform a variety of inferior offices. Now, if I can show - as I believe I can - good reasons why the structure should remain standing, I trust the Royal Commissioners will do all in their power to further that object.

Apart, then, from all thoughts of its present use, and also from all those considerations which fairly entitle it to great attention - the building, I would suggest, should be allowed to remain standing, on account of its peculiar fitness to supply a great public want, which London, with its two and a half millions of inhabitants, stands most essentially in need of - namely, a Winter Park and Garden under glass.

When I determined on sending in a design for the Glass Palace, I had in view quite as much the after purpose for which the building could be adapted as the object then more immediately required; and, in my original prospectus, I prominenty mentioned the fact, as one which had received a large share of my attention. Since that day nothing has transpired to alter my views, but, on the contrary, everything has contributed to strengthen and establish them, and to further convince me, if such further conviction had been needed, how valuable an appendage to this great metropolis would be a large national place of recreation and instruction, such as I propose.

Within the last twenty years, the physiology, economy, and requirements of animated nature, with the effects which climate, locality, and various contingencies hare upon their health and habits, have been studied and examined, with the best results. Geology, closely connected with the study of plants, has, in its wondrous discoveries, unfolded to our view the mysteries of ages long gone by, when the earth's inhabitants differed widely from those now seen occupying its surface; of these no recorded history furnishes us with particulars, and but for this science we must have looked back thro' the thick mist of time, with scarcely a glimmering of light to guide us. By the aid of chemistry and botany many useful disco-eries have been made, which practical horticulture has rendered subservient to the comforts and happiness of man; and the removal of the duty on glass has given an impetus to this science which only a short time ago no efforts could possibly have called into action; indeed, had that duty still existed, no building such as I am now treating of could possibly have been erected, and without an extensive use of glass, to equally admit and diffuse a subdued light, no such displays as at present could have been secured.

The achievements of horticulture, however, do not stop here, or merely consist in what has been accomplished within the great exhibition building, where dry and polished articles and the most tender fabrics may be safely preserved; but it leads onwards to the formation of climates, which even under opposite influences are rendered healthy, and suited to the wants and requirements of man. Formerly, wherever plants were no longer unhealthy,pent up ovens; although the immense variety of objects they contain form a remarkable contrast with the meagre appearance of former collections, yet these objects are seen growing with an ease and natural vigor which, with the limited knowledge and means we possessed formerly, it was impossible to imitate. The ventilation and climate of our dwelling-houses have also been considered, and many additions to our comfort have in this respect been made. The perfection of these internal arrangements, contrasted with the atmosphere without, renders it still more desirable that something on a large scale should be done to counteract the effects of the outer air, which, in this country, and the neighborhood of London especially, is often during many months in the year impure, murky, and unfit for healthy recreation and enjoyment; and it is to meet this want that I offer the present recommendation.