The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-12
FOR A TREE NURSERY
TWENTY ACRES OF EsTILL PARK
TRACT WILL BE USED.
COUNTY WILL GIVE THE LAND.
THOUSANDS OF SHADE TREES WILL
BE PROVIDED FOR CITY.

! Mayor Myers, Who Wrote TO
County Commissioners - Commits
siOners Favored the PrOject-Re-
ferred the Matter to Committee on
Farm, Who Will Make Favorable
Report.
Savannah is to have a tree nursery
1t is probable that within very short
while a twenty-acre tract of the land
once set aside as Estill Park will be
granted for the purpose by the County
Commissioners.
The matter was brought before the
County Commissioners at their meet
ing yesterday, when a communication
from Mayor Myers, asking that the
county give it's assistance was read.
The Mayor heartily Endorsed the move
ment, and asked that a committee from
the board meet committee of Council
to consider them after. A communica-
ton from Chairman P. D. Daffin of the
Park and Tree Commission was in
closed.
The commissioners favored the re-
quest, and it was the sense of the Com
rnittee on Farm, to which it was refer
red, that it would be acted upon favor
ably, though no final action was taken
yesterday.
The Plan Proposed.
The plan upon which the Park and
Tree Commission propose to establish
and conduct the nursery is outlined in
the letter of Chairman Daffin. The
| county is to deed to them the tract
! lying east of the electric car track in
the northeastern corner of the Estill
| Park tract. When the commission
! ceased to use it as a nursery it shall
| Immediately revert to the county. 1t
| As proposed to transplant the 5000
! trees which were planted in the rear
| of Laurel Grove Cemetery last fall
| by the commission.
| The letters of Mayor Myers and
| Chairman Daffin fully expose the need
of a nursery and state the advantages
| which would accrue from it's establish
ment The commissioners were i'm
| pressed by the communications, and
were disposed from the first to act upon
them favorably. In indorsing the re-
| quest of the Park and Tree Commits
! sion, Mayor Myers said:
The Mayors Letter.
Il beg to inclose herewith, for your
| consideration, a copy of a letter re-
ceived by me from the Park and Tree
| Commission, relative to the establish
ment of a tree nursery on part of the
| land once set aside as Estill Park. I
heartily indorse this project and trust
that we will have the cordial assistance
| of the County Commissioners in putting
| it into effect.
"A nursery of this kind would enable
| the city commissioners to secure uni
| formity of trees for it's highways and
assist very materially in the work of
identifying them. Whatever advances
| Savannah's interests naturally is for
the benefit of the county as a whole,
| and / hope you will arrange for a con-
sideration of the matter by represen-
tatives of your body and of Council at
| an early date. Whenever the use of
| the land for nursery ceases it would
Immediately revert to the county"
The need of the nursery, and the
plan proposed for its adjustment are
set forth in the following communica-
ton from Chairman Dafin to the
Mayor:
Need of a Nursery.
THE increasing growth of Savan-
nah demands a continued and well
planned tree planting on a large scale,
| If we are to maintain our beautiful
| title of THE Forest City" The Park
and Tree Commission has always been
| compelled to plant trees procured from
outlying country, which have usually
been grown in unsuitable soil, and inn
proper locations, thus making these
trees not only unsuited for ornamen-
| tai use, but also liable to early decay.
| This practice should be discontin-
ued as soon as it is possible to inau-
gurate better one.
Trees grown in nurseries elsewhere
are expensive, and not having been
| acclimated to this climate, should not
be used If anything better can be pro-
| cured. 1t therefore becomes necessary
for Savannah to have tree nursery
| in which can be grown trees under
| proper condition in large quantities
| and many varieties, to supply the
| pressing demands for the present and
the future. A tree grown in this way
| is admirably suited for its purpose,
being more shapely. more vigorous,
longer lived and cheaper in cost than
a tree transplanted from the woods.
| In addition to these advantages a
nursery will permit this commission
to plant a very much greater variety
Of trees, and to do so in any quantity
at no increased cost.
Nursery in Cemetery.
Approaching this necessity, the
commission planted last fall nursery
| IN the rear portion of Laurel Grove
Cemetery, in which it now has 47SS
vigorous young trees, of sixteen differ
ent varieties.
Next fall these trees must be trans
planted to allow for their proper
growth, and for this purpose a tract
of land of from ten to fifteen acres.
is necessary. This land must be suit
ably drained, convenient of access,
and the soil must be reasonably good
After careful investigation this
commission is convinced that the most
suitable place for such a nursery is
| the northeastern corner lying east of
the electric car track, in what was
! formerly Estill Park. This tract con-
tains about the required area suitable
for the purposes intended, and we be-
| lieve if your honor will apply to the
| County Commissioners to set it aside
! for the above purposes, that they
would be willing to grant the request
I'VE therefore inclose a blue print
of the tract named. outlining in red,
and we respectfully urge that such APP
! plcation be made to the commission
arc Of "a