US Plant Patent PP5588
LaCrosse
Grapevine
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 30, 2004. 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
- PP5588
- Filed
- January 30, 1984
- Granted
- December 3, 1985
- Expires
- January 30, 2004
- Assignee
- SWENSON SMITH VINES INC
- Inventor
- SWENSON ELMER
Abstract
A grapevine which exhibits winter hardiness to -35° Fahrenheit in central or southern Wisconsin and Minnesota, produces a white wine of good quality, a grape with low-acidity, average sugar content and a flavor or aroma without the typical foxiness or labrusca of previous varieties.
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 grapevine, substantially as shown and described herein, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of winter hardiness down to -35° Fahrenheit in central or southern Wisconsin and Minnesota, producing white grapes which made a good quality of wine comparable to a German style white wine, and grapes with relatively low acidity, average sugar content and a flavor or aroma absent the typical foxiness or labrusca of earlier varieties.
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