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US Plant Patent PP4483

Free Spirit

Chrysanthemum named Free Spirit

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 28, 1998. 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
PP4483
Filed
November 28, 1978
Granted
November 13, 1979
Expires
November 28, 1998
Inventor
PETUSKY KERRY S

Abstract

A greenhouse chrysanthemum cultivar of the pot plant type originated as a sport of the variety "Spirit" and distinguished by its large, generally white blooms having quilled ray florets which project radially from an upstanding group of inner florets having a pale yellow cast.

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 chrysanthemum pot plant, substantially as herein shown and described, particularly characterized in uniqueness, when compared with its parent "Spirit", by its quill-shaped ray florets which project in a radial fashion from an upstanding group of the inner or disc florets.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4483 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.