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Each year the Council spends a stated amount in extending 

 its planting operations. 



On the south parklands is the AVattle Grove — a memorial 

 to our sailors, soldiers and nurses — where all kinds of wattle 

 trees are planted. This year an avenue of wattle trees was 

 planted in the vicinity of the Urove, and the trees, with their 

 golden 1)lossom, should, in a few years, make a very pretty 

 picture. 



The Municipal Nursery, the area of which is about three 

 acres, is on the parklands near the Zoological Gardens. Here 

 all trees, shrubs and seedlings for the parks and gardens are 

 raised. There are over 50 varieties of trees in the nursery. 

 AVhen transplanted, the trees are from two to eight feet high, 

 and Avhen put in parks have to be guarded from damage by 

 cattle and small boys. The trees are planted in a proper, 

 systematic manner, the holes being from two feet to live feet 

 square, according to the nature of the soil. AVhere necessary, 

 fresh soil is supplied. The small number of failures speaks 

 Avell for the manner in which the work is carried out. 



There are on the parkhinds about eighty varieties of native 

 trees, some of them being : — Sheoak, Silky Oak, Acacia, Ster- 

 culia, Ficus, Flame Ti-ee, Laguuaria, Callitris (Native Pine), 

 Australian Red Cedar, Moreton Bay, Chestnut, Kauri Pine, 

 €tc. The trees now being chiefly used for street planting are : — 

 Ash, Elm, White Cedar, and White Acacia. 



In the summer months band concerts, subsidised by the 

 Council, are given in the parks by members of the Band Asso- 

 ciation and the returned soldiers. 



The wide streets in Adelaide lend themselves admirably 

 to tree planting. In AVashington, U.S.A., the street trees num- 

 ber some 80,000. Street trees in Paris number over 100,000, 

 and over £15,000 a year is expended on them. The import- 

 ance of the sanitary value of trees to cities is illustrated by a 

 resolution parsed some time ago at a meeting of the New 

 York County Medical Society to the effect that one of the most 

 effective means for mitigating the intense heat of the summer 

 months and diminishing the death rate among children is the 

 cultivation of an adequate number of trees in the streets. 

 The City Beautiful cannot do without trees, trees that are 

 graceful, strong and numerous. Let us remember what has 

 been done in other cities. The City Beautiful has come to 

 stay. Let us be up and doing — doing all we can for the 

 advancement and beautification of the city of which Ave should 

 all be so proud, so it may become ''a thing of beauty and a joy 

 for ever." 



