US Plant Patent PP6454
Sitting Pretty
Miniature rose plant `Sitting Pretty`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 4, 2007. 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
- PP6454
- Filed
- February 4, 1987
- Granted
- December 13, 1988
- Expires
- February 4, 2007
- Inventor
- BENNETT CECILIA L D
Abstract
The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant, named `Sitting Pretty`, which is characterized by its pale pink blooms, ranging from near Neyron Rose to near Empire Rose with a blending of near Chinese Coral to near Peach at the base of each petal, and a pale yellow reverse, ranging from near Empire Yellow to near Aureolin. 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 bloom.
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 `Sitting Pretty` of hardy, dwarf, vigorous growth, well-branched and attractive in appearance, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its blooms of pale pink, ranging from near Neyron Rose to near Empire Rose, with a base, ranging from near Chinese Coral to near Peach, and a reverse of pale yellow, ranging from near Empire Yellow to near Aureolin.
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