US Plant Patent PP4354
Miniature moss rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 27, 1997. 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
- PP4354
- Filed
- December 27, 1977
- Granted
- December 26, 1978
- Expires
- December 27, 1997
- Assignee
- ARMSTRONG NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- SUDOL JULIA K
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, and for its era that is ordinary rather than an omission. Before about 1980, breeders frequently patented a plant without giving it a cultivar name at all — the grant identified it by its number, its parentage and a written description of the flower and foliage. Most plant patents from the 1930s to the 1970s have no name in them.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A miniature hybrid rose plant of the moss variety, which blooms almost continuously through the growing season, and bears double flowers with 35 to 50 petals and 2 to 10 petaloids. Its ovoid to urn-shaped buds and flowers are off-white in color. The plant bears many single and branched moss-scented stipitate glands on its peduncles, buds, sepals and hips. It has viable pollen and sets hips. The flowers are of average size for roses of the miniature category.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The hybrid miniature moss rose plant substantially as herein shown and described and having a growth habit appropriate to miniature roses, there being on its peduncles, buds, sepals and hips many single and branched moss-scented stipitate glands, the buds being ovoid to urn-shaped and the flowers, which are double, comprising 35 to 50 petals plus 2 to 10 petaloids, being off-white in color, the plant being characterized further in that it blooms nearly continuously during the growing season, has viable pollen and sets hips.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4354 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.