The Plant Patent Act of 1930 was designed to encourage the cultivation of new varieties of plants by prohibiting competitors from cultivating the offspring of those plants without permission.

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Tradescant the Elder, especially, devoted much of his life to bringing new species of plants and trees to England, from all over the known world, and to cultivating new varieties from existing species.

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