US Plant Patent PP4509
Gettysburg
Chrysanthemum named Gettysburg
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 26, 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
- PP4509
- Filed
- October 26, 1978
- Granted
- March 11, 1980
- Expires
- October 26, 1998
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- SHOESMITH LEONARD H
Abstract
A new variety of chrysanthemum plant characterized by its single flower form having intense yellow ray florets, of which there are several rows, possessing good substance and long life. This new plant is not temperature sensitive and can be flowered the year around on medium treatment producing abundant blooms of medium size with minimal pollen production when grown as a spray pot plant.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinctive cultivar of pot chrysanthemum, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its single flower form having intense yellow ray florets possessing good substance and long life, its minimal production of pollen, its abundant production of blooms when grown as a spray pot plant, and its spreading pot habit with good breaking ability.
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