The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-28
WILL GIVE 1T PARKS
nrv-sEyENTH STREET WILL
l'''' HAVE ROWS OF TREES.
COPING AND SOD FOR PARKS.
,,xrE OF TREES FROM EAST TO
WEST BROAD STREET.

nal. and Tree Commission Now En-
.a.cd in Setting Ont Two Rows OF
- IN the Street-Departmen OF
s..aets and Lanes Will Complete
,,1,a+ the Commission Has Begun.
commission Has Also Set Out Trees
an the streets Opened Through =,
and 1. of ii. PrOperty-Next Work
MN Re Cutting Away Dead Trees.
,-,,irtv-seventh street is to be parked
-, FAST Broad 60 West Broad. The
park and Tree Commission is setting out
,,.os If trees along the street. In years
-. came the trees will have given the
tract the beauty that is so greatly adj
hired upon some of the older streets of
tbs citv where the foresight of aesthetics
g now displaying its results.
Oaks are planted by the Park and Tree
Commission on Thirty-seventh street.
chairman p. D. Daffln said yesterday
that the work began last week, and that
:, will be continued for two or three
weeks longer. But about that time re-
mains of the season during which hard
wood trees can be successfully trans
nlanted. After two or three weeks the
san will begin to rise, and it is not then
possible to transplant trees with a good
chance of their survival.
Two rows of the oaks will be planted
They will run parallel, just as they do on
Liberty street or Oglethorpe avenue. In
course of time the department of streets
and lanes will put coping about the trees,
inst as has been done on the other streets
mentioned. and will sod the parks thus
formed.
Live stock has been added to the equip
ment of the Park and Tree Commission.
and tees are now brought from the for
ests to the city for transplanting in great
err number. Until the addition 90 the
live stock was made, it was possible to
bring in only some seven or eight trees
a day. bur the limit has been doubled.
The trees are brought from quite a as
lance, often ten or twelve miles in the
country. and even at such a distance It is
difficult to obtain good specimens.
The commission has been engaged for
some time in setting out oaks along the
streets that have been opened by the Sa-
vannah. Thunderbolt and Isle of Hope
Railway, through its property in the
neighborhood of Whitaker and Thirty
second streets. This property was for
merry used for car sheds, but being no
longer required for that purpose, the sheds
were torn down, the properly divided into
of N
through it, The beauty to be loaned by
Furnishing trees will make the property
the more attractive and valuable, so the
street railway company induced the COM
mission to plant the oaks for it. About
100 of the trees will be set out, the cost
being charged up 70 the company.
After the expiration of the season for
planting hard wood trees, the Park and
Tree Commission will turn it's attention
to the dead trees in the city. There are
many of these, and some months will be
required to dispose of them all. Time,
labor ard money are required for the re-
moval Of one of the trees, when it is
large one, as there is more than a simple
process of cutting it down involved.
Chairman Daffin says it costs some
thing Ike SO or $12 to cut down a big
dead tree. The streets and sidewalks
cannot be blocked by cutting it down
IN bulk, but the process must be one of
Looping off the branches and cutting off
the trunk in sections. Block and tackle
must be rugged up for lowering the parts
in many cases, as il would not do to have
them fall upon houses.
The greatest mortality of late has been
among the water oaks Many of these
that had attained great proportions have
cied and must be removed. Chairman
Datfin ascribes their death to the severe
cold in January 1899, when some of the
trees were injured. Their unhealthy APP
pearance and slowlydying process date
from then.
State Entomologist w. NJ. Scott. was in
the city last week to inspect the trees
mere He was enthusiastic over the adj
ded beauty the city has been given under
the efforts of the Park and Tree Commits
SION. Mr.. Scott said that other Georgia
cities should adopt a system similar to
That employed here. He said he found no
San Jose scales. but only comparatively
small number of native scales that can
be prevented from multiplying by spray
ing