Meehans' mensile : una rivista di orticoltura, botanica e parentado soggetti . f theUnited membri ex-periment Gardensat Washington, theCapitol del nostro Na-zione. Come founderof il grande ordine delle operazionidi i patroni ofHusbandry, - inquanto designer di theNational CemeteryGrounds a Gettys-burg, e come uno dei tre Parkingcommissioners thathave realizzato thestreets di lavaggio-ton l'invidia dei theworld, il suo nome, incaso contrario il suo modesto per-sonality, è widelyk n. w n . In hisfavorite departmentof giardinaggio, la sua utilità è stata unico. Per venti anni,nella prima parte della sua carriera, la sua greatambition era quello di elevare

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Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects . f theUnited States Ex-periment Gardensat Washington, theCapitol of our Na-tion. As founderof the great orderof The Patrons ofHusbandry, — asthe designer of theNational CemeteryGrounds at Gettys-burg, and as one ofthe three Parkingcommissioners thathave made thestreets of Washing-ton the envy of theworld, his name, ifnot his modest per-sonality, is widelyk no w n . In hisfavorite departmentof gardening, his usefulness has been unique. For twenty years, in the earlier part of his career, his greatambition was to elevate gardening, and his in-telligent and instructive writings, given freelyfor the public good, did yeoman service in thisdirection. Of all men, he had the happy facultyof turning scientific abstractions to practicaluses. One of the most practically useful lessonsever received by the writer was derived fromMr. Saunders, as stated in another column, namely, that heat did not ascend in an activesense, as one might imagine from the textbooks, but in a passive sense, being forced. WILLIAM SAUNDERS Upwards by the colder air getting under andlifting it. Millions of dollars to-day are yearlylost in abortive attempts at ventilation byreason of not noting this simple fact. William Saunders was born at St. Andrews, in Scotland, on December 7, 1822, —the seat ofa great university. His father was a gardenerfor a wealthy gentleman who resided chieflyin India, so that the gardener had his home inthe mansion, amidst pleasant and refined sur-roundings. He was sent to college with thedesign of entering the ministry, on which his mother had set herheart. Williamstaste for gardeningwas, however, strong. He left thedivinity col lege, and became a gard-eners apprenticebound for fouryears. Freed fromhis apprenticeship, he came to Londonto still further per-fect himself in prac-tical gardening, andengaged himself asa journeyman un-der the famous gar-dener, Kinghorn, at Richmond, abouttwo miles fromKew, about

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