US Plant Patent PP9786
Quiet Time
Miniature rose plant named `Quiet Time`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 2, 2016. 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
- PP9786
- Filed
- January 2, 1996
- Granted
- January 28, 1997
- Expires
- January 2, 2016
- Inventor
- O'BRIEN SUSAN M; BENNETT CECILIA L D
Abstract
The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant, named `Quiet Time` which is characterized by buds and blooms in shades of pale mauve with the base of innermost petals being pale peach. 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 `Quiet Time`, 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 Phylox Purple to near Pale Mauve with the base of innermost petals ranging from near Egyptian Buff to near Salmon, which are abundant on the bush and usually borne one to a stem but occasionally in sprays of 3 to 5 or more.
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