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The port cities of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria experienced an important change throughout the 19th c. In this transformation, trees began to occupy an important role, not only with the aim of beautifying the city but also due to the hygienist postulates that associated vegetation with health and hygiene. In this purpose of greening the city, the press, civil society and knowledge and contact networks of Canarian professionals, especially doctors, were fundamental.