Ten years in Washington : Life and scenes in the national capital, as a woman sees them . it looks like solidmahogany without knot or blemish. Much attentionhas been given to the cultivation of the fibrous grasseswhich, in China, are woven into fine and durable of these grasses, and of the cloth which theymake, in its various stages of manufacture, are on exhi-bition in the cases of the museum. A number of acreshave been set apart in the grounds for the cultivation ofthese grasses. The shade-trees of our entire country areto be represented in these grounds. Already over onethou
Ten years in Washington : Life and scenes in the national capital, as a woman sees them . it looks like solidmahogany without knot or blemish. Much attentionhas been given to the cultivation of the fibrous grasseswhich, in China, are woven into fine and durable of these grasses, and of the cloth which theymake, in its various stages of manufacture, are on exhi-bition in the cases of the museum. A number of acreshave been set apart in the grounds for the cultivation ofthese grasses. The shade-trees of our entire country areto be represented in these grounds. Already over onethousand four hundred native varieties have been planted. Through the Smithsonian Institute the Department hasbeen put into communication with leading foreign agri-cultural societies, and the result has been, not only an 548 TEN TEAKS IN WASHINGTON. exchange of reports, but of almost every known specimenof flower-seeds, seeds of shrubs, vegetables and display of flowers in the agricultural grounds isalready something wonderful, and soon will equal any likedisplay in the TROPICAL PLANTS AND THE GOVERNMENT COXSERVATORy.—WASHINGTON. CHAPTER XLYHI. OLD HOMES AND HAUNTS OF WASHINGTON. The Oldest Home in Washington—The Cottage of David Burns—DavidBurnss Daughter—Singing a Ladys Praises—The Attractions of a Cot-tage— Tom Moore the Poet Pays Homage to Fair Marcia—The Fa-vored Suitor—How the Lady was Wooed and Won—Mother and Daugh-• ter—The Offering to God—The City Orphan Asylum—A Costly Mauso-leum—The Assassination Conspiracy—Persecuting the Innocent—A Sug-gestion for the Board of Works—The Octagon House—A ComfortableIncome—The Pleasures of Property—A Haunted House—Apple-Stealing— Departed Joys and Stomach-Aches —The Jackson Monument—TheTragedy of the Decatur House—A Fatal Duel—The Stockton-SicklesHouse—A Spot of Frightful Interest—The Club-House—Assassinationof Mr. Seward—Scenes of Festivity—Th
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