26 THE GOLDFISH AND ITS CULTURE. 
the light while yet young. To make this fish still more 
unique, the culturists select specimens minus the dorsal fin for 
that purpose. Fish with skyward-directed eyes are called 
“Stargazers” or ‘Celestials.” 
The production of the dragon-eyed goldfish the Chinese and 
Japanese consider the highest achievement in ornamental fish 
culture. 
The eyes being the distinctive feature are denominative of 
other types, and if bred to them the specimen is thus called, 
for example, a dolphin-ow!, a fan-tailed nymph- telescope, a 
mandarin-stargazer, etc. 
More or less interesting specimens may be raised by cross- 
ing some of the species heretofore described, and it may be 
stated in connection that, if there is a difference in the age or 
size of the fish to be mated, the characteristics of the older of 
the pair will be most predominant in the offspring. 
The American climate influences unfavorably the form of 
the short bodied types, making it longer in the offspring of 
imported stock, but on the other hand it has, in connection 
with our food, a favorable effect on the development of the 
fins. I have raised specimens of the globe-type that in this 
particular far surpassed any that were brought alive or pre- 
served from foreign countries, or that I have seen represented 
in pictures of Chinese or Japanese origin. I was quite pleased 
when Gen. U. S. Grant, after his return from his trip around 
the world, declared some Mandarin globes of my raising finer 
than any shown to him in the imperial gardens in China and 
Japan. 
In judging a goldfish, the following points will prove of 
value: 
