US Plant Patent PP6188
Free Spirit
Miniature rose plant named Free Spirit
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 19, 2006. 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
- PP6188
- Filed
- June 19, 1986
- Granted
- May 31, 1988
- Expires
- June 19, 2006
- Inventor
- STRAWN LESLIE E
Abstract
The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant characterized by salmon-coral buds and flowers of distinctive form and further indentified by the dwarf, upright, compact plant.
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, hardy, dwarf, bushy, upright, rounded, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described; characterized by buds and flowers which are in a color hue similar to Puerto Rico (Floribunda -- U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,519) and giving the coloring effect of deep salmon; and resembling Rise and Shine (Miniature -- U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,231) in form and size, having buds and flowers of a distinct and unusual appearance as compared to other miniature rose plants; said flowers being fully double, unique in its exhibition form and further characterized by its vigor, abundance of bloom and foliage and ease of propagation from soft wood cuttings and by budding.
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