366 THE GROUNDSWELL. 



&quot;While engaged as a landscape gardener, Mr. Saunders 

 attention was early called to the lack of, and necessity for, 

 proper ornamentation in the grounds surrounding the public 

 schools, seminaries, and .colleges of the country. He has 

 long and urgently advocated, both by precept and example, 

 this great necessity. The growth of the public taste and 

 effort in this direction is largely due to his efforts. 



Mr. Saunders has, first and last, furnished much practical 

 matter for the rural press. He was a frequent contributor 

 to Hoveys Magazine of Horticulture and the Horticulturist, 

 and furnished, for several years, a comprehensive monthly 

 calendar of operations for the vegetable garden, orchard, 

 forcing houses, and the conservatory, in the last named 

 journal. Besides writing much on landscape gardening, in 

 architectural and horticultural journals, he has also edited 

 and adapted various foreign works on horticulture and land 

 scape gardening for publication in this country. He also 

 edited, for some years, the Farmer and Gardener, of Phil 

 adelphia ; in addition to which, his labors on other period 

 icals have been considerable. 



CONNECTION WITH THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



Immediately after the battle of Gettysburg, he was in 

 trusted, by the Governors of various States, to lay out the 

 Soldiers National Cemetery at that place, being the first 

 cemetery of the kind formed during or immediately after 

 the war. 



While practicing landscape gardening, the services of 

 Mr Saunders were in great demand, involving so much 

 travel, and so great demands upon his time, that, his health 

 giving way, he was obliged to abandon active labor in 

 direction, 



