Liverpool is one of the richest corporations in Britain; and no town ever had a better situation for a public garden or breathing place, which might at the same time have contained horticultural, botanical, and zoological gardens, cemeteries, &c. We allude to the rising grounds at Everton. A zone, from the sea on one side to the Mersey on the other, might have included these, and formed a public garden, or rather series of public gardens and promenades, with distant prospects, such as scarcely any other situation in the kingdom could afford. Something of this sort, we are informed, was proposed many years ago by the late Mr. Roscoe, but rejected, and the ground let for building. As, however, nothing can be very permanent in a rapidly increasing commercial town like Liverpool, we hope, when it is subjected to a proper representative system of management, the improvement so long ago suggested may yet be realised. The botanical and horticultural gardens that have been formed by subscription in Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and other towns, for the benefit of the subscribers, would, if town governments had been properly organised, have been formed by them for the good of all. The existence of these gardens, of subscription libraries, institutions, and museums, &c., as the property of a few individuals, however highly creditable to them, is a standing proof of the imperfection of the present town system.
