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of Husbandry, that organization could not be very far 

 wrong ; and it is acknowledged that, without his influence 

 and aid, it would have been difficult to establish the Order 

 in the confidence of the agricultural masses if, indeed, it 

 could have continued to exist at all. 



EARLY CAREER. 



Mr. Saunders was born at St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scot 

 land, in December of 1822, and was educated in that city 

 of universities. After leaving college, in his sixteenth year, 

 he was articled as an apprentice to a gardener, and has fol 

 lowed that business, in its various branches, up to the pres 

 ent time. After serving out his apprenticeship, he engaged 

 as a journeyman, working under first-class instructors, both 

 in Scotland and England, and ultimately attaining the 

 responsible management of an important establishment. 



Early in 1848, Mr. Saunders left London for New York. 

 His letters of introduction immediately secured him employ 

 ment in his profession. He was, for some time, employed 

 as overseer of the extensive farm and garden of John Hop 

 kins, Esq., of Baltimore, MdL, where he introduced import 

 ant improvements. He erected a cold grapery, three hun 

 dred feet in length ; formed flower gardens, artificial lakes, and 

 other landscape adornments ; introduced thorough draining on 

 the farm, fall plowing of the clayey soils, and deep plowing 

 of all. Finishing his work there, he was next employed in 

 laying out the grounds of Thomas Winans, of Baltimore. 

 From thence he went to Germantown, Pa., and devoted 

 himself exclusively to landscape gardening, the laying out 

 of cemeteries and extensive public and private grounds being 

 among his specialties. 



In treating cemeteries, Mr. Saunders introduced a system 



