US Plant Patent PP8555
Helen
Miniature rose plant named `Helen`
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
- PP8555
- Filed
- December 31, 1992
- Granted
- January 25, 1994
- Expires
- December 31, 2012
- Assignee
- O'BRIEN SUSAN M, BENNETT CECILIA L
- Inventor
- BENNETT CECILIA L; O'BRIEN SUSAN M
Abstract
The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant, named `Helen` which is characterized by buds and blooms ranging from near Crimson to near Cherry in cooler weather and ranging from near Orient Red to near Blood Red in warmer weather. 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 `Helen`, hardy, dwarf, vigorous growth, well-branched and attractive in appearance, substantially as illustrated and described; characterized by its hybrid tea form blooms, ranging from near Crimson to near Cherry in cooler weather and near Orient Red to near Blood Red in warmer weather with little or no fading of color throughout the bloom cycle. The blooms are abundant on the bush and usually borne one to a stems but occasionaly in sprays of 3 to 5 or more.
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