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The Public Gardens.
TO THE EDITOR.
I am, &c.,
ALEX. JOHNS.
Sir —It is with very much pleasure that I
with friends visit your well-kept Botanical and
Zoological Gardens, and I must admit they
appear to be improving on each visit. The
flower beds and paths are always in the best
of older, and the hothouses are a great treat
with such a variety of topical aud other
plants. Now that the monkey house is
finished and in the occupation of its tenants, I
think come of their former cages might be
used to put some other animals in, and would
mention one or two which I think there would
be no difficulty in obtaining, aud which would
be interesting to visitors, viz., the duck
billed platypus or ornithorhynchus, which is
only found in Australia, the echidna, or Aus
tralian hedgehog, the ash koala or native bear;
also a few ferrets, which would be interesting to
younger visitors. I may mention that the
native bears are pleutiful in South Gippsland,
also in the Cape Otway Ranges, and are very
easily captured —there are alto in those locati
ons scrub wallabies somewhaat different to
any you have here.
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