US Plant Patent PP4637
Miniature rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 15, 1999. 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
- PP4637
- Filed
- November 15, 1979
- Granted
- February 3, 1981
- Expires
- November 15, 1999
- Inventor
- STRAWN LESLIE E
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant characterized by two-toned rose pink buds and flowers of distinctive form and further identified by the neat dwarf, 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 of hardy, dwarf, bushy, rounded, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers which are in a color hue similar to Pink Cameo (miniature--U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,451 expired) but giving a color effect of light pink flowers with darker pink centers, and resembling Peaches 'N Cream (miniature--U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,278) in form and size, having buds and flowers of a distinct and unique appearance as compared to other miniature roses, said flowers being fully double, round in form with high centers; and further characterized by its vigor, abundant foliage and ease of propagation from soft wood cuttings or by budding, and with an abundance of flowers.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4637 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.