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(Salicornia sp.), Artlirocneiiium, and other salt-loving plants 

 lluurisli; nearer the Port River the mangrove (Avicennia 

 officinalis) covers the muddy land beween tide marks, its 

 "breathing pegs" (pneumatophores) shooting up in a thick 

 mass and holding the mud. Large tracts are covered with an 

 escaped garden plant, Statice sp. 



Excursion to Lady Stirling's Garden at Mount Lofty, 

 April 21, 1923. — A party visited this beautiful garden and 

 admired the fine collection of trees, including as they do so 

 many beautiful varieties of pines, larches, firs, cryptomerias, 

 etc. The gingko tree of Japan interested the party greatly. 



Excursion to Buckland Park, April 25, 1923. — At the invi- 

 tation of Mr. Brooks, the owner, a party of members paid a visit 

 to Buckland Park under the leadership of Captain 8. A. White 

 CM.B.O.U. The party camped on the banks of the River 

 (jawler, by one of the waterholes still remaining in the river 

 bed. The redgum (E. rostrata) still lines the river banks, but 

 the giants of former days are gone, and only their stumps 

 remain. The leader gave an interesting talk on the birds to 

 be seen about Buckland Park, and showed a specimen of the 

 little Aeanthiza Rosinae, a bird which has a very limited range, 

 in the samphire swamps near St. Kilda. This bird was one of 

 the first additions Captain White was able to make to the list 

 of South Australian birds. The list of birds seen during the 

 day included black duck, magpie, laughing jack, swamp hawk, 

 Murray magpie, galah, sulphur-crested cockatoo, cockatoo, 

 crested shrike tit, cuckoo shrike, white-faced heron, greenfinch, 

 swallow, crow, black and white fantail, purple-crowned lori- 

 keet and restless flycatcher. 



OUR PARKS AND GARDENS. 



By Alec. J. Morison. 



''Our Parks and Gardens" — a simple sounding phrase, but 

 what does it mean ? In South Australia we are used to having 

 around us so many of the beauties of nature that we often fail 

 to appreciate them to their fullest extent. This beautiful city 

 of ours— founded by a man whose name will be handed down 

 to posterity, and named after a gracious Queen, was laid out 

 in 1837. The area of the city — which includes North Adelaide 

 — is 3,700 acres, made up of 1,042 town acres, 1,900 acres of 

 parklands, 530 acres of Government land, and 228 acres of 

 squares, streets and footways. 



There is no modern city in which the distinction between 

 city and suburbs is so clearly marked as in Adelaide. It is as 

 clear as in the case of cities in old times, Avhich cities were 

 walled. The Adelaide ''walls" are the parklands, which are 



