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US Plant Patent PP6788

Sweet Pickings

Miniature rose plant, named `Sweet Pickings`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 1, 2008. 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
PP6788
Filed
February 1, 1988
Granted
May 9, 1989
Expires
February 1, 2008

Abstract

The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant, named `Sweet Pickins`, which is characterized by its pale pink blooms, ranging from near French Rose to near Venetian Pink. The blooms are usually borne one to a stem with hybrid tea form. The bush is vigorous, well-branched and produces a moderate to heavy quantity 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, named `Sweet Pickins` of hardy, dwarf, bushy, well-branched and attractive in appearance with vigorous growth, substantially as illustrated and described; it is further characterized by its blooms of pale pink, ranging from near French Rose to near Venetian Pink, with hybrid tea-type form that are usually borne one to a stem but on occasion may come in sprays of 3 to 5 or more.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6788 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.