James's Park. The first objection is the site, in itself insuperable,
as will appear from the following remarks on the subject by Mr.
Loudon, editor of the _Gardener's Magazine_:--

"Had the problem," he says, "been proposed (how) to alter Buckingham
House and gardens, so as to render the former as unhealthy a dwelling
as possible, it could not have been better solved than by the works
now executed. The belt of trees which forms the margin of these
grounds, has long acted as the sides of a basin, or small valley, to
retain the vapours which were collected within; and which, when the
basin was full, could only flow out by the lower extremity, over the
roofs of the stables and other buildings at the palace. What vapour
did not escape in this manner, found its way through between the
sterns of the trees which adjoin these buildings, and through the
palace windows. Now, all the leading improvements on the grounds have
a direct tendency to increase this evil. They consist in thickening
the marginal belts on both sides of the hollow with evergreens, to
shut out London: in one place substituting for the belt an immense
bank of earth, to shut out the stables; and in the area of the grounds
forming numerous flower-gardens, and other scenes with dug surfaces,
a basin, fountains, and a lake of several acres. The effect of all
this will be a more copious and rapid exhalation of moisture from
the water, dug earth, and increased surface of foliage; and a more
complete dam to prevent the escape of this moist atmosphere, otherwise
than through the windows, or over the top of the palace. The garden
may be considered as a pond brimful of fog, the ornamental water as
the perpetual supply of this fog, the palace as a cascade which it
flows over, and the windows as the sluices which it passes through. We
defy any medical man, or meteorologist, to prove the contrary of what
we assert, viz. that Buckingham Palace is a dam to a pond of watery