The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-01
READY FOR H0RTICULTURISTS.
THE SOCIETY WILL MEET IN SA-
VANNAH WEDNESDAY,.

A Large Attendance Expected and n
Fine Exhibit of Fruits, Flowers
and Vegetable Products to BE
Made at the Guards Armory-Meni-
bers to BE Entertained at Tybee
Thursdny-Forsyth Park Put in
Trim in Honor of the Visitors.
The State Horticultural Society will
convene in Savannah Wednesday. The
meetings will be held at the De Soto. while
the horticultural exhibit will be at the
Guards hall.
The meeting will be one of much inter-
est, as papers VIII be read by prominent
horticulturists of this and other states.
A large attendance is expected. Vice
President LeHardy, who has been looking
after the arrangements for the meeting,
believes that the horticultural exhibit will
be one of the best that has ever been
seen at the meetings of the society. In ad-
dition to the local exhibit, which is ex-
pected to be very good, numerous indi-
vidual exhibits are expected from mem
bers of the society, it being customary for
members to bring or send exhibits.
Dr. LeHardy expects that fully 1900
plates of fruits, vegetables and plants will
be on exhibition, a contribution of a dozen
or more plates from single member
being nothing unusual. Mr., A. c. Oelschig
has charge of the local exhibit and the
arrangement of the hall, and nothing will
be lacking which can be obtained to add
to the attractiveness and instructiveness
of the exhibit.
The society will assemble in the ban
quet room of the De Soto at 10 O'Clock,
Wednesday morning. An invocation will
be offered by Rev. w C. Schaeffer. d. D.,
of the Lutheran church of the Ascension.
An address of welcome will be delivered
by Mayor p w Mellrim, in behalf of the
citizens, and by Dr. George II. Stone, in
behalf of the park and tree commission.
The addresses will be responded to by
members of the society. Then will follow
the address of President p. J. Berckmans
of Augusta, after which a recess will be
taken for enrolling new members. After
the appointment of special committees
by the president. Mr.. r. +. johnson OF
Smithville Ca, will read a paper upon
The Adaptation of Fruits and Other
the convention will adjourn for dinner
An afternoon session will be held and
some time will be devoted to the inspec-
ton of the exhibit al the Guards hail. A
morning session will be held Thursday
and in the afternoon the convention will
be taken down to Tybee for a dip in the
surf and supper at the South End hotel
The members of the park and tree com
mission have been constituted a special
committee of entertainment for the occa-
sion.
In honor of the visit of the Horticultu-
raj Society, Forsyth park has been giver
special attention during the last week
by the chairman of the street and lane
committee and the superintendent of pub
lie works. The park has been given q
thorough cleaning up, and all the shrub
berry and underground trimmed and put r
good shape and the grass moved. Specia
attention has been given the fountain
which has been thoroughly cleansed from
the basin up. The moss and slime have
been removed from the basin, and tn,
figures and ratings cleaned. The Mer
curry in the center, the Tritons and the
other figures with which the fountain Is
embellished, will be given several coats
of fresh white paint The Sphinxes, which
guard the northern entrance to the parE
from Bull street, which have so long worr
their coats of somber green, will be meta
morphosed with coats of dazzling white
ness. Even the benches in the park have
been scrubbed, and, in fact everything
has been done to make il an attractive
place for the visitors, which it undoubted-
ly will be.