US Plant Patent PP5175
Carnation plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 30, 2002. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP5175
- Filed
- September 30, 1982
- Granted
- January 10, 1984
- Expires
- September 30, 2002
- Inventor
- CARRIER LEONARD E
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of carnation plant named Melody, which was originated by me by crossing numbered but unnamed and unpatented seedlings and from irradiation of a seedling derived from this cross.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of carnation plant named Melody substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of a very vigorous and free-breaking plant habit, and strong and straight stems; superior resistance to soil-borne diseases such as Fusarium oxysporium and Fusarium roseum and other root-rots such as damping off, water molds, and the like; large serrated flowers which open fully without bursting the calyx and causing "splits"; a distinctive and attractive pink flower color which fades evenly to a slightly lighter shade of pink giving a frosted appearance; and good heat tolerance which is superior to that of the parent lines and the so-called "Sim".
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5175 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.