THE 



Canadian Horticulturist, 



VOL. XIII. 



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NO. 2. 



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SOME PROMINENT CANADIAN HORTICULTURISTS.— IX. 



WILLIAM SAUNDERS, F.R.C.S. 



MO APOLOGY, we are persuaded, is required, for substituting for 

 our usual colored frontispiece of some fruit or flower, the 

 photograph of one so highly esteemed by the fruit-growers 

 of Ontario, as Prof. Wm. Saunders, Director of the Experi- 

 mental Farms of Ontario. Ever since the early days of 

 the history of our Association his countenance has been 

 familiar to us as that of one whose very presence seemed to 

 contribute much to the pleasure and profit of our gatherings. 

 Possessed of remarkable ability for grasping many facts 

 and systematising all into the one harmonious whole, endowed with a fertile 

 brain for divising wise schemes, and withal having a pleasing address coupled 

 with a modest, yet firm bearing, he has advanced from one position to 

 another, without that adverse criticism which so often falls to the lot of 

 those who reach exalted stations. 



Mr. Saunders is a native of Crediton, Devonshire, England, where he 

 was born on the i6th of June, 1836. At the age of twelve he came to 

 Canada, and was at fourteen apprenticed to a chemist, a line of business 

 he pursued until quite recently, when called to his present position by the 

 Government of Canada. In addition to his chemistry, he pursued the 

 somewhat allied studies of Botany, Entomology and Horticulture, thus 



