THE 



YOL. VII.] 



OCTOBER, 1884. 



[No. 10. 



WILLIAM SAUNDEES, F.E.C.S. 



Instead of our customary fruit or 

 flower illvistratioii we are enabled, 

 throLTgh the coui'tesy of the Rural 

 New-Yorker, to present our readers 

 with a very good likeness of our much 

 esteemed President of the Fruit Grow- 

 ers' Association of Ontario. This de- 

 parture, we are confident, will be 

 hailed with great satisfaction by thou- 

 sands of our readers, all of whom, and 

 especially those who enjoy the ])leasure 

 of his personal acquaintance, will be 

 delighted to possess so good a repre- 

 sentation of one whom Ave all delight 

 to honor. That our readers and fellow 

 members of the Fruit Growers' Associ- 

 ation may become more fully acquainted 

 with what our President has done 

 already to make the world better and 

 wiser for his having lived in it, we 

 copy from the Rural Nevj-Yorker a 

 sketch of his labors to the present 

 time. 



" This gentleman, who has attained a 

 high reputation both on this continent 

 and in Europe as an entomologist and 

 horticulturist, was born in Crediton, 

 Devonshire, England, on the 16th of 

 June, 1836. He removed with his par- 

 ents to Canada when only twelve years 

 of age, and at fourteen was apprenticed 

 to a chemist, and in chemistry he is still 



engaged. He began the studj' of ento- 

 mology associated with that of botany 

 nearljr thirty years ago, and published in 

 the Canadian Journal for May, 1863, the 

 first list of plants found in that part of 

 Western Ontario in which he resides, 

 embracing 545 species. During the same 

 year he took an active part in the organ- 

 ization and work of the Entomological 

 Society of Canada, which is still in a 

 flourishing condition, but known now as 

 the Entomological Society of Ontario. 

 On the establishment of the Canadian 

 Entomologist in 1868, he became a con- 

 stant contributor to its pages. In 1875 

 he was appointed editor of the Journal, 

 and was at the same time elected President 

 of the Society, and has ably and accept- 

 ably filled both positions ever since. In 

 the fifteen volumes of the Entomologist 

 closing with December, 1883, we find no 

 less than two hundi'ed and five papers 

 from his fertile pen, and besides this, he 

 has been one of the chief contributors to 

 the fourteen annual reports of the Ento- 

 mological Society, which have been pub- 

 lished dui'ing the same period. 



"In 1867 he was elected a Director of 

 the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 

 and has continued till this time as a 

 Director, and has written many valuable 

 papers for its annual reports. He was 

 chosen President of the Association in 

 1882, in which position he is still retain- 

 ed. Thoroughly posted on every import- 

 ant subject, quick, pleasant and decided, 

 he presides with grace, and conducts a 

 meeting with pleasure and profit to aU. 

 Having a large experimental ground, he 

 has tested a great variety of fruits and is 

 well infornied in reference to those best 



