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 870 FIF'I`Y—EIGH'I`H CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 1405. 1905. dgf1;g;'g**é$;*;*;}d&¥°”· EXPERIMENTAL GARDENS' AND or~:0UNDs: Cultivation and care of _ experimental gardens and grounds, including the keep of lawns, trees, roadways, and walks; management and maintenance of the conservatories, greenhouses, and plant and fruit propagating houses; employ- ment of assistants, experts, foremen, gardeners, laborers, carpenters, painters, plumbers, and other mechanics, in the city of Washington or elsewhere, machinery, tools, wagons, carts, horses, harness, plows, lawn mowers, sprinklers, hose, watering cans, tubs, pots, and other implements required in cultivation; lumber, hardware, glass, paints, tin, stones, gravel, and other material reqpired for repairs; fertilizers, insecticide apparatus, and chemicals; blac smithing, horseshoein g, and repairs to implements and machinery; seeds, plants, and bulbs for ropagatin purposes; labels, potting and packing materials, feed for horses, fu5, freight and express charges, repairing roadways and _ walks, traveling and other necessary expenses, and for electric lighting, for telegraph and telephone services, and for all necessary office iixtures and supplies, twenty thousand three hundred and twenty dol- E¤g1ivr>i¤s Mw lars, of which sum five thousand dollars shall be immediately available gm!] wm` for fuel and necessary equipment for new greenhouses. mgglgggx erred- AamNe·roN EXPERIMENTAL FARM: To enable the Secretary of Agri- ' culture to continue the necessary improvements to establish and maintain a general experimental farm and agricultural station on the Arlington estate, in the State of Virginia, including employment of labor in the city of Washington or elsewhere, and for all necessary Vol-3l»P·135· iixtures, supplies, material, apparatus, and other expenses, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress approved April eight- Lund ¤€t¤D¤1’¢· eenth, nineteen hundred, entitled "An Act to set apart a portionof the Arlington estate for experimental agricultural purposes, and to place said portion under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Ag`I'lClllture and his successors in office," which Act shall be construed to confer upon the Secretary of Agriculture and his successors jurisdiction over so much of the Government land in Alexandria County, Vir inia, known as the Arlington estate, as- lies east of the public road leading from the Aqueduct Bridge to Alexandria, Virginia, otherwise called the Georgetown and Alexandria road, and between said road and the Potomac River, containing about four hundred acres, with the exception, however, of a strip of land as follows: Commencing at the point where the Geor etown and Alexandria road enters the Arlington estate on the north side, thence along said road six hundred and twenty-five yards, thence in a line perpendicular to said road to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, thence along said canal to the north line of the reservation. twenty thousand dollars. 'figgulrurcinvesri- 'FEA-<·L‘1.rUnE 1Nvi·:sr1oA*rroNs; For all expenses necessary, including gtthe employment of labor in the city of “ ashington or elsewhere, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and re rt on the cost of making tea and the best method of cultivating andp(preparing the same for market, so as to demonstrate whether it is practicable to introduce its culture in the Southern States as a profitable industry, and for all necessary fixtures, supplies, apparatus, material, and other expenses, eight thousand five hundred dollars. seeds. _ _ 1 PURCHASE AND DISTRIBUTION or VALUABLE sEEDs: For the urchase, °“”“b“` propagation, testing, and distribution of valuable seeds, bullbs, trees, shrubs. vines, cuttings, and plants; for rent and repairs; the emplovment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required, in the city of Vllashington and elsewhere; all necessary oiilice fixtures and supplies, fuel, transportation, paper, twine, gum: printing, postal cards, gas, and electric current, traveling expenses, and all necessary material and repairs for putting up and distributing the same, and to be distributed in localities adapted to their culture,4 two