TOWN PLANTING 



contains but little plant food. For many 

 years past careful observations have been 

 made, not only in London, but in Glas- 

 gow, Liverpool, Manchester, Warrington, and 

 Dublin, as to which trees and shrubs suc- 

 ceed best in the most smoky localities of 

 each town, and it is mainly by tabulating 

 these different experiences that satisfactory 

 information on the subject has been obtained. 

 Coal smoke from the chimneys in the larger 

 and more crowded centres of industry is no 

 doubt bad enough, but, when we have to 

 contend with an atmosphere that is largely 

 impregnated with the outcome from chemical, 

 gas, or iron works, the difficulties to be en- 

 countered are correspondingly increased. 



The injurious effects of smoke have be- 

 come much more pronounced during the past 

 century, and Sir William Richmond, R.A., 

 told the annual meeting of the Coal Smoke 

 Abatement Society last year that Westminster 

 Abbey had suffered from more rapid decay 

 in the last hundred years than in all the pre- 

 vious centuries of its existence. The chief 



