US Plant Patent PP8556
Elizabeth Abler
Miniature rose plant named `Elizabeth Abler`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 31, 2012. 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
- PP8556
- Filed
- December 31, 1992
- Granted
- January 25, 1994
- Expires
- December 31, 2012
- Assignee
- BENNETT CECILIA L D, O'BRIEN SUSAN M
- Inventor
- BENNETT 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 `Elizabeth Abler` which is characterized by microminiature buds and blooms ranging from near Currant Red to near Rose Red with inner petals ranging from near Crimson to near Rose Madder. Blooms of this rose are usually borne one to a stem with hybrid tea form. The bush is compact, well-branched and prolific in its production of 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, name `Elizabeth Abler`, hardy, dwarf, compact growth, which is vigorous, well-branched and attractive in appearance, substantially as illustrated and described; characterized by its hybrid tea form blooms, ranging from near Currant Red to near Rose Red with inner petals ranging from near Crimson to near Rose Madder with little to no fading of color throughout the bloom cycle. The blooms are microminiature (smaller than the average miniature bloom) and abundant on the bush and usually borne one to a stem.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8556 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.