EDITORIAL. 
Tue leadi i 
ng art 
bears the cro a 2 the Popular Science Monthly for Februar 
es itle, “Vegetation a remedy for the summer Bh 
ities. / . 
A plea for the cultivation of trees, shrubs 
, 
Science, 
falsel lants, vi 
- a x vines, and grasses in the streets of New York 
improvement of the public health for the Sits 
With tree Fak, - ee residents, and for ornamentation.” 
pathy, but the . cities the BoTANICAL GaZETTE is in warmest sym- 
“to revive the > apy advanced by Stephen Smith, M.D., LL.D., 
Wer the trees in ni giving the Department of Parks jurisdiction 
la Decckicn” and require it to plant and cultivate addi- 
make him ive o n” are calculated to astonish the botanist, and 
physiology. «Th ver the popular inculcation of such ridiculous 
How can the tem e real problem to be solved may be thus stated. 
ane: [ae of the city of New York be modified during 
because a’ According to the writer trees can do this, 
sPerature, preventin even single trees... - tend to equalize tem-- 
do “through aw g sual apa both in summer and winter.” This they 
ied standard ae inherent warmth, which always remains at a 
Zation of Dias + seh ginanaiey and winter.” Then, since “the vapori- 
atmosphere con on frigorific process,” and plants “emit into the 
that “vevetati siderable quantities of water vapor,” it is evident © 
ion tends powerfully to cool the atmosphere during @ Sum: 
her day.” ; : 
Since “man may live in close proximity to marshes from 
he utmost impunity 
between his home 
malaria and mephiti pane 
phitic gases are emitted in the greatest quantity and 
ful.” 
eous conceptions 
Monthly 4 hike the Popular Science 
o do. Or must “popular science” be considered 
Merely a 
pseud 
1899] onym for grotesque or sentimental fol-de-rol ? 
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