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of varieties received from the testing station, shall give a 

 simple and characteristic name to each variety (preference 

 being given to the name desired by the owner), which official 

 name shall be entered in a register of cultivated plants along 

 with a brief account of its origin, the name of its originator 

 or discoverer, its botanical name, its local or synonymical 

 names and its economic characteristics as shown by the sta- 

 tion trials. The Secretary of Agriculture shall, upon the re- 

 commendation of the board of experts, issue a certificate to 

 the originator or discoverer of any useful variety of plants 

 when in their judgment the same is merited, and after pay- 

 ment of a fee of $25 to the department, which certificate 

 shall be duly numbered and registered in the archives of the 

 department and shall secure to the originator or discoverer, or 

 his assignees, the sole right of propagation and sale of such 

 certified variety for a period of 10 years following its date. 

 The Secretary of Agriculture shall also issue a certificate of 

 introduction to any citizen of this country who shall introduce 

 a valuable new variety of plant from a foreign country, which 

 shall be tested or reported by the testing stations and approv- 

 ed and registered by the board of experts in the same manner 

 as above provided for varieties originated or discovered in the 

 United States of America, after payment of a fee of $25 to 

 the department, and when he shall have proved that he has 

 parted with a valuable consideration for such variety to the 

 originator or discoverer in said foreign country, and shall have 

 proved that the said variety has not been in general cultivation 

 or offered for general public sale in any foreign country. 

 Said certificate of introduction shall protect the introducer or 

 his assignees for a period of five years in the propagation of 

 the variety in this country. 



''Sec. 7.— Register to include all cultivated plants. The 

 Secretary of Agriculture is hereby directed to make the re- 

 gister of cultivated plants complete by the entry of all varie- 

 ties of plants under cultivation, their classification and de- 

 scription under their best known and authoritative names ; also 

 to collect prepared specimens, photographs or sketches of the 

 varieties for purposes of identification not above provided for. 

 Copies of the register of cultivated plants and its yearly ap- 

 pendixes shall be prepared and furnished gratis to the libra- 

 ries of testing stations, the state agricultural colleges, the 



