US Plant Patent PP4932
Venture
Lily plant: Lilium `Venture`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 29, 2001. 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
- PP4932
- Filed
- April 29, 1981
- Granted
- November 9, 1982
- Expires
- April 29, 2001
- Assignee
- MELRIDGE INC
- Inventor
- MCRAE EDWARD A
Abstract
A new variety of Asiatic hybrid lily plant bearing large clusters of large flowers of excellent form, distinctive color, and long persistence, both on the plant and as cut flowers. The plant is characterized by its vigorous growth, its rapid natural propagation under field conditions, its healthy growth when forced under glass throughout the entire year, its favorable bulb growth response under prolonged storage even when the bulbs are frozen, its tall stems, its high bud count and the deep blood red color of its buds and flowers.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinctive variety of Asiatic hybrid lily plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its vigorous growth, its rapid natural propagation under field conditions, its healthy growth when forced under glass throughout the entire year, its favorable bulb growth response after prolonged storage even when the bulbs are frozen, its tall stems, its high bud count, and the deep, blood red color of its buds and flowers.
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