. Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . - guaranteed to be of primequality. Seeds are sent to districts where the lands have been over-flowed, and the farmers have lost all they put into the ground, thus MUSEUM OF AGRICULTURE. 23r. THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. enabling them to start again in the work of cultivation. Choice vari-eties of foreign seeds are given out in sections where it is believed theforeign plants can be succ
. Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . - guaranteed to be of primequality. Seeds are sent to districts where the lands have been over-flowed, and the farmers have lost all they put into the ground, thus MUSEUM OF AGRICULTURE. 23r. THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. enabling them to start again in the work of cultivation. Choice vari-eties of foreign seeds are given out in sections where it is believed theforeign plants can be successfully cultivated. Yearly over two mil-lion packages of seeds, and from 60,000 to 70,000 plants are dis-tributed. The plants include many rare and exceedingly valuablespecies. The interior of the department building is excellently arrangedfor the purposes of the business, and all the divisions are accommo-dated in large, well-furnished apartments. A large apartment on thefirst floor is used for the library, a collection of 10,000 volumes per-taining to agriculture, which is considered the most complete of thekind in the United States. It has a number of very costly and mag-nificent botanical works of foreign publication. On the second floor, occupying all the space in the centre ofthe building, is a grand Museum of Agriculture, arranged to thor-oughly illustrate the agricultural productions of the
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