US Plant Patent PP6658

Progress

Hybrid Asiatic lily named Progress

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 31, 2007. 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: PP6658
Filed: July 31, 1987
Granted: March 7, 1989
Expires: July 31, 2007

Abstract

A new hybrid lily variety distinguished by its large, deep orange, unspotted flowers having "clean" anthers which shed little pollen, the flowers being borne on a single tall stem from a raceme having five to eight buds, the blooms being of excellent form with long persistence both on the plant and as cut flowers. The plant itself is highly resistant to disease, shows high tolerance of virus, is an excellent garden plant, and its bulbs may be precooled and forced for cut flower production.

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

I claim: 1. The new and distinctive variety of Asiatic hybrid lily plant and parts thereof, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by the rich orange coloration of its substantially unspotted flowers having small anthers which shed very little pollen; by the excellence of its flower form, its vigorous growth and rapid natural propagation, and its versatility both as a garden plant and as a cut flower producer.

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