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US Plant Patent PP6528

Cherished

Lily plant named `Cherished`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 13, 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
PP6528
Filed
March 13, 1987
Granted
January 10, 1989
Expires
March 13, 2007

Abstract

A new variety of hybrid lily plant bearing large clusters of flowers of excellent form and long persistence, both on the plant and as cut-flowers. The flowers of the new plant are particularly characterized by their clear pink coloration shading into a cream "blush" above the nectaries, by their dainty "ring" of spots in the center of the flowers only, and by their deeper pink tepal reverse. This combination is completely new in the upright Asiatic divisions of lilies suited to forcing and to mass commercial cultivation. The plant is highly resistant to disease and shows high tolerance of virus. It is an excellent garden plant. The bulbs may be precooled and forced for cut-flower production. The new lily plant is vigorous and is a good grower and propagator.

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.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6528 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.