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US Plant Patent PP8543

Geneva 65

Flowering crab apple/apple rootstock `Geneva 65`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 16, 2011. 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
PP8543
Filed
September 16, 1991
Granted
January 18, 1994
Expires
September 16, 2011
Inventor
CUMMINS JAMES N; ALDWINCKLE HERBERT S

Abstract

A new and unique apple rootstock `Geneva 65` that is very dwarfing and resistant to crown rot and fire blight. The tree is also useful as a small ornamental flowering crab.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

We claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of apple tree, substantially as shown and described herein, characterized particularly as to novelty by being a very dwarfing rootstock that is resistant to crown rot and to fire blight.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8543 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.