US Plant Patent PP8496
Meironsse
Hybrid tea rose plant named `Meironsse`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 30, 2012. 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
- PP8496
- Filed
- October 30, 1992
- Granted
- December 14, 1993
- Expires
- October 30, 2012
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- MEILLAND ALAIN A
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Hybrid Tea rose plant is provided which abundantly and continuously forms attractive double orange blossoms. The blossoms are Indian Orange and are edged with Capsicum Red. The buds assume a very elegant configuration. Such blossoms are long lasting and their cleaning ability is excellent. The plant exhibits a semi-erect growth habit, very vigorous vegetation, and is particularly well suited for growing in parks and gardens. Also, the new variety is not particularly affected by cryptogamic diseases.
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 the Hybrid Tea rose plant characterized by the following combination of characteristics: (a) forms in abundance on a continuous basis attractive long lasting double flowers which are Indian Orange and edged with Capsicum Red, (b) exhibits semi-erect growth habit, (c) exhibits very vigorous vegetation, (d) forms buds having a very elegant configuration, and (e) is not particularly affected by cryptogamic diseases; substantially as herein shown and described.
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