US Plant Patent PP5396
Climber rose plant--Metzalitaf variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 28, 2003. 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
- PP5396
- Filed
- June 28, 1983
- Granted
- January 29, 1985
- Expires
- June 28, 2003
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- MEILLAND MARIE L
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
A new and distinct variety of rose plant is provided which bears highly attractive double relatively large blossoms which exhibit a colorful blend of yellow and rouge coloration. The new variety of the present invention resulted from the controlled crossing of an unnamed seed parent obtained by crossing the Meigold variety and the Peer Gynt variety with pollen from an unnamed parent obtained by crossing progeny of a cross between the Meialfi variety and the Meifan variety with the King's Ransom variety. The resulting variety possesses long arching canes as well as glossy deep green foliage. The new variety is particularly suited for growing in the U.S. landscape where climbing or pillar roses are customarily grown.
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 Climber rose plant, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized particularly by (a) a vigorous well branched growth habit with long arching canes, (b) buds which open into extremely attractive relatively large blossoms of a richly colored yellow-rouge blend, and (c) attractive leathery and glossy foliage of deep green coloration.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5396 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.