US Plant Patent PP4289
Loyalty
Chrysanthemum plant named Loyalty
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 30, 1997. 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
- PP4289
- Filed
- March 30, 1977
- Granted
- August 8, 1978
- Expires
- March 30, 1997
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- SHOESMITH LEONARD H
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of chrysanthemum plant for greenhouse culture, characterized by the decorative form of its medium to large flowers with ray florets of deep pink which surround a central mass of closely grouped purple florets; by its year around 9-week response as a pot plant, its good breaking ability, its very dense, dark green foliage, and its tolerance to high soluble salt conditions.
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 variety of chrysanthemum plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its profuse production of deep pink flowers of medium to large size and composite and decorative form, its year around flowering ability and very dependable 9-week response to photoperiod control, and by its growth habit of producing strong and erect stems with good breaking ability and very dense foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4289 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.