US Plant Patent PP5077
Southern Belle
Hybrid tea rose plant cv. Southern Belle
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 22, 2002. 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
- PP5077
- Filed
- February 22, 1982
- Granted
- August 2, 1983
- Expires
- February 22, 2002
- Assignee
- ARMSTRONG NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- SWIM HERBERT C; ELLIS ARNOLD W
Abstract
A hybrid tea rose plant having two-toned blossoms of pink with a white reverse.
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 variety of rose plant of the hybrid tea class, substantially as herein shown and described, being particularly characterized in that its bright two-toned pink and white coloration is very uniform throughout the life of the flower; its large, well-formed flowers are generally borne in clusters giving an abundant, nearly continuous bloom throughout the growing season, its inability to set hips, its above average resistance to disease and its abundant large foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5077 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.