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US Plant Patent PP9160

Chula Vista

Miniature rose plant named `Chula Vista`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 3, 2014. 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
PP9160
Filed
January 3, 1994
Granted
June 13, 1995
Expires
January 3, 2014
Inventor
BENNET CECILIA L D; O'BRIEN SUSAN M

Abstract

The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant, named `Chula Vista` which is characterized by buds and blooms of dark red. Blooms of this rose are usually borne one to a stem with hybrid tea form and in sprays of 3 to 5 or more. The bush is vigorous, well-branched and produces moderate to heavy blooms.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

The following is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant, named `Chula Vista`, the plant characterized as hardy, dwarf by its vigorous growth, well branched and attractive in appearance, substantially as illustrated and described; and further characterized by its hybrid tea form buds and newly open blooms ranging from near Indian Lake to near Currant Red and fully open blooms ranging from near Blood Red to near Signal Red, the blooms being abundant on the bush and usually borne one to a stem but occasionally in sprays of 3 to 5 or more.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9160 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.