Excerpt from Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture: For the Year 1874 By the action of the last Congress, about four acres of ground, for merly occu pied by the canal, have been added to the Department grounds, and are now undergoing preparation to form a part of the arboretum, which for some time past has been in the process of formation in the grounds surrounding the Department building, which has greatly at tracted the attention of visitors who are interested in the growth of trees and shrubs, either as useful cultural products or as subjects of decorative ornament. It is gratifying to know that the desire to possess and preserve the most beautiful forms of our arboreal vegetation is rap idly increasing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.