US Plant Patent PP4355
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
- PP4355
- Filed
- December 27, 1977
- Granted
- December 26, 1978
- Expires
- December 27, 1997
- Assignee
- ARMSTRONG NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- CHRISTENSEN JACK E
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 new variety of hybrid miniature moss rose, bearing many moss-scented stipitate glands on its stems, peduncles, buds and sepals. The plant grows vigorously, is hardy, and blooms almost continuously throughout the growing season. It is fairly large, in comparison to roses of the miniature class generally. Its blooms are medium pink in color, and have very double petalage, with from 25 to 60 petals and from 1 to 8 petaloids. It has viable pollen and will set hips when grown under greenhouse conditions. It has a better-than-average resistance to mildew, as compared to other roses of its class, grown under parallel conditions.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A hybrid miniature moss rose plant substantially as herein illustrated and described, being particularly characterized by a combination of features, including the presence of many moss-scented stipitate glands on its stems, peduncles and sepals, the vigor of its growth habit and its ability to bloom almost continuously throughout the growing season, the very double petalage of its blooms, comprised of from 25 to 60 petals, plus 1 to 8 petaloids, and the generally pink coloration of its blooms.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4355 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.