GUINEA FOWLS. 3862. Guinea fowl, grown wild in Mexico. 3863-3864. Guinea fowl, Common speckled. 3865-3866. Guinea fowl, Common and half white. 3867-3868. Guinea fowl, Common and white. 3869. Guinea fowl, hybrid, said to be between Guinea fowl and common fowl. 3870. Guinea fowl, hybrid between turkey and common fowl. DOMESTIC POULTRY, ETC. 3871-3872. Wild Jungle Fowl, (Gallus sonnerattis), said to be origin of domestic poultry. 3873-3874. Game, Black-breasted red. 3875-3876. Bantam, Golden Seabright. 3877-3878. Bantam, Silver Seabright. 3879-3880. Bantam, Duck-wing game. 3881-3882. Bantam, Black African. 3882-3883. Bantam, Spanish Black. 3884-3885. Bantam, Spanish White or White Leghorn. 3886-3887. Bantam, Creve-Cœur. 3888-3889. Bantam, Houdan. 3890-3891. Bantam, La Fleche. 3892-3893. Cochin Buff. 3894-3895. Cochin Partridge. 3896-3897. Gray, perhaps black. 3898-3899. Brahma, Dark. 3900-3901.. Brahma, Light. 3902-3903. Polish Top-knot. 3904-3905. Hamburg, Gold-spangled. 3906-3907. Hamburg, Silver-spangled. 3908-3909. Leghorn, Brown. 3910-3911. Silky fowl or Cresp-feather. 3912-3913. Tailless fowl. 3914-3915. Dorking, Black." 3916-3917. Dorking, Gray. PHEASANTS. 3918-3820. Pheasants, Golden and young, semi-domesticated.. 3921-3924. Pheasants, Common European and young. 3925-3929. Pheasants, Silver and young. PIGEONS. 3930-3931. Pigeon, Wild European Rock, said to be origin of domestic. 3932-3933. Pigeon, Domestic, closely resembling the Wild Rock, shot at Washington, D. C. 3934-3935. Pigeon, Archangel. 3936-3937. Pigeon, Black Trumpeter. 3938-3939. Pigeon, Barbs. 3940-3941. Pigeon, Carrier. 3942-3943. Pigeon, Carrier, Brown, said to be from South America. 3944-3945. Pigeon, Carrier, said by donor to be from South America. 3946-3947. Pigeon, Fantail, white. 3948-3949. Pigeon, Runtz, white. 3950-3951. Pigeon, Pouters. 3952-3953. Pigeon, Red Jacobins. 3954-3955. Pigeon, Turbit. 3956-3957. Pigeon, Unnamed. 3958-3960. Pigeon, Dove Ring pecked. TOWNSEND GLOVER, Entomologist. HORTICULTURAL DIVISION. The objects of the horticultural and propagating division were set forth in brief but comprehensive terms by William Saunders, the superintendent of the division, in the Commissioner's report for 1867 : 1. To procure and encourage the transmission of seeds, cuttings, bulbs, and plants from all sources, both foreign and domestic, for the purpose of testing their merits and general adaptation, or for particular localities of this country. 2. To procure by hybridizing and special culture, products of a superior quality to any now existing. 3. To ascertain, by experiment, the influences of varied culture on products, and the modifications effected by the operations of pruning and other manipulations on trees and fruits. 4. To investigate more thoroughly the various maladies and diseases of plants, and the insects that destroy them. 5. To provide ample means for thoroughly testing samples of all seeds and other contributions that may be received. 6. To cultivate specimens of the various hedge plants, and exhibit their availability for that purpose. 7. To cultivate a collection of the best fruit trees and plants, such as grapes, apples, pears, peaches, strawberries, raspberries, currants, &c., so as to compare their respective merits. 8. To plant a collection of choice shrubs adapted for decorating gardens and landscape scenery. 9. To erect glass structures, for the twofold purpose of affording the necessary facilities for cultivating exotic fruits and plants, and to furnish examples of the best and most economical modes of constructing, heating, and managing such buildings. These objects have been faithfully and systematically adhered to. Since 1862, the year in which the Department was organized, the present superintendent has had charge of the experimental garden, and since 1867 he has also had charge of the grounds surrounding the Department building. Prior to 1867 the experimental garden had shown the wisdom of the policy that had inaugurated the propagation of improved varieties of domestic fruits and of valuable seeds and plants the products of other lands. Since then there has been ample verge for experiments, for comparison, and for the exercise of such taste and the application of such skill as American horticulture demands. Every avenue to horticultural knowledge and kindred sciences has been opened to the public. The flower-garden, noticeable not more for the variety and luxuriance of its flowers than for the exquisite harmony of their arrangement. The conservatory, 320 feet long from east to west and reaching southward 150 feet from the center of its extreme length, with its perfect heating arrangements, its tropical and semitropical fruits, its foreign grapes, and its miscellaneous collection of useful foreign plants-dyes, gums, textiles, medicines, &c.; the arboretum, embracing as complete a collection of hardy trees and shrubs, arranged in family groups, as can be found in any country; the experimental fruit-orchard; the carved walks; the terrace; the smoothly-shaven lawns; the superb landscape effect; all these greet the eye of the |