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Nursery or breeding house

BALL HORTICULTURAL CO

776 US plant patents, granted between 1994 and 2026.

On the name: these patents were filed under 3 spellings, counted together here — BALL HORTICULTURAL CO (773), Ball Horticultural Co (2), BALL HORTICULTURAL INC (1).

Still under patent — 489 cultivars

Soonest to come off patent first. You may not propagate these for sale until the date shown.

Already in the public domain — 287 cultivars

Most recently freed first. Anyone may propagate and sell these plants — though the name it is sold under may still be a live trademark.