The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-25
AVENUE OF MAGNOLIA
LIBERTY STREET WILL BE LINED
WITH THEM.
TREES BEING PLANTED.
CHAIRMAN DAFFIN HOPES TO
Make 1T HANDsOMEST STREET
IN THE COUNTRY.

I'm the NeiEhbOrhOOd of 300 Trees
Will Grace the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
tive Muck Being Used to NOurish
Young Trees-when They Take
Root But Little Trouble Ia Ex-
perienced in Getting Them to
Iive-Chairman Daffin Thoroughly
Enthused on the Subject-Squirrels
Are Now at Home in Forsyth Park.
II the plans of Chairman P. D. Daft
I'm of the Park and Tree Commission
do not fail, Liberty street will be an
avenue of magnolias, and Mr.. Daffin
predicts will be the most beautiful
street in the country. Work in this di-
rection is now going on.
For several days young trees have
been hauled from the country by the
Park and Tree Commission, and with
them large quantities of muck and
swamp soil. Chairman Daffin is anx-
ious to make the street an avenue of
.-sweet magnolias," and if hard work
will accomplish the task Savannah
ians are assured of one of the pref
test streets in the country. This work
and that of making Forsyth Park a
home for SQUIRRELS are the chief I'M
dertakings of the commission at this
time.
1--WE are replacing the dead magno-
lia-Grand de Flora-it being neces-
sary because of the severe drought.
Then again the magnolia is a much
&1,,va me- ~
ers," said Chairman Daffin yesterday,
in discussing the work of the Commits
sion. 1.-The reason of this is, they re-
uuire more moisture and more atten-
ton in many other ways. The asphalt
on this street is one of the main trou-
bles-as it absorbs the heat during the
day and then throwing it off at night,
it also absorbs or drys out, a great
deal of the moisture which these trees
should get.
This street is one of the hobbies of
the Park and Tree Commission, and
was planted in magnolia-Grand de
Flora-when the Commission was first
organized, at the suggestion of Col. G..
A. Mercer, who was then a member of
the board 1t is safe to say that if we
are successful in growing this avenue
of trees, there will not be a street any
where in the world to equal it.
1.-THE commission also planted some
five years ago an avenue of live oaks
on Oglethorpe avenue, and it Is with
great pride that we speak of the sue
cess of these trees and when the old
ones are gone there will be an avenue
of trees that any city would be rSSud
to possess.
Squirrels in Parks.
1--WE have turned loose in the For
syth Park six brown fox squirrels and
nine grey squirrels, which we have
purchased from parties in Florida and
Washington, D. C. These squirrels are
tame, and will come up and eat out of
the hand. The commission asks the
cooperation Of the public in making
this undertaking success.
when we say cooperate, we mean
for citizens to keep their dogs out Of
the park and to report any one seen
abusing these pretty little pets. If the
public will take the interest in this
matter that they should we will have
in a few years squirrels like Memphis
and Richmond. We captured a very
fine setter dog which was running
loose and had caught one of our fox
squirrels, which he tossed up in the
air several times. The only thing that
prevented the dog from killing him was
our foreman, who happened up at that
time. The dog is at our greenhouse on
Barnard street. The commissioners
have several times notified the chief of
police about these violations of the city
ordinance governing parks, etc, and
we are hoping to see these ordinances
enforced"