The noble gift made by a number of our neighbors to fas city of Philadelphia, of forty-five acres of land for a. public park, has already been: ohronioled in these pages. It affords us sincere pleasure to add, that the proper steps have been taken by Councils, aided by an intelligent committee of the donors, to immediately improve and embellish these grounds, known, till lately, as "The Hunting Park Race Course," and near Germantown. That able writer and landscape gardener, Mr. William Saunders, who favors our readers monthly with the "-Calendar of Operations," received the first premium for the plan of laying it out, and Mr. James Gleason, both of Germantown, the second.

Mr. Saunders, in his description, showed that he understood the principles of creating scenery; he has been appointed to superintend the entire laying out, and has gone to work already to select the ornamental trees and shrubbery. This appointment will not, however, as might be conjectured, interfere with his regular business of landscape and consulting gardener, which, is already extensive, embracing a space between Carolina and Massachusetts.

We shall endeavor to give Mr. Saunders' plan, in a reduced form, as soon as it can be prepared.