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sending samples or specimens of seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots 

 and plants originated or discovered and propagated by them, 

 under the label of the Secretary, to each of said testing sta- 

 tions, which by agreement with the Secretary of Agriculture 

 shall have engaged to make careful trials of the same as here- 

 inafter specified. A written application to the Secretary of 

 Agriculture from the originator or discoverer, giving a sworn 

 description of a new variety and its origin, and accompanied 

 by a fee of $i shall entitle him to a preliminary certificate 

 which shall set forth his claims to proprietary right in the 

 said variety, and protect him in such right until such time as 

 a full certificate of registry may be issued for the same by 

 the Secretary of Agriculture, Provided that the said originator 

 or discoverer shall send the specimen seeds, bulbs, roots or 

 cuttings to the testing stations under the label furnished by 

 the Secretary of Agriculture within a period of six months 

 following the date of said preliminary certificate. The origi- 

 nator or discoverer shall also furnish to the board of experts, 

 on the request of the Secretary, a specimen plant, seeds, fruits, 

 bulbs or other product of his variety, for the purposes of iden- 

 tification and registry. 



"Sec. 4. — Conditions of trial. — The Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture shall make arrangements with the testing stations to 

 receive seeds, plants, cuttings, bulbs or roots of new varie- 

 ties and to make careful trial of the same, by cultivation and 

 comparison with standard varieties, under proper physical 

 conditions for the various sections and localities, and to make 

 periodical itemized reports of such trials to the secretary. 



''Sec. 5. — Board of examiners. — The Secretary of Agri- 

 culture shall cause the reports of trials of varieties of plants 

 received from testing stations to be received by a board of ex- 

 perts skilled in the scientific and practical characteristics of 

 cultivated plants, which board or bureau he is hereby authoriz- 

 ed to organize from among the specialists in the employ of 

 the department of agriculture, including private citizens, also 

 specialists who shall be invited with full power to act with the 

 board, which shall hold periodical sessions at such times and 

 of such duration as the secretary shall determine. 



"Sec. 6. — Register of cultivated plants: Certification of 

 varieties : Certificate of introduction. — This board of ex- 

 perts shall carefully examine and compare the reports of trials 



