US Plant Patent PP5272
Miniature rose plant-Wilsma variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 30, 2002. 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
- PP5272
- Filed
- June 30, 1982
- Granted
- August 14, 1984
- Expires
- June 30, 2002
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- WILLIAMS J BENJAMIN
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
A new and distinct variety of Miniature rose plant is provided having attractive and very abundant blossoms which are Spinel red in coloration. The new variety resulted from the crossing of the Pinafore variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,810) and the unnamed seedling resulting from the cross of the Lilibet variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,209) and the Fairy Queen variety (non-patented). It is a very vigorous grower with a low-growing semi-spreading habit. The blossoms are single and petite and are borne in clusters of up to a dozen or more. The new variety is particularly suited for ornamental use in the home landscape.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of Miniature rose plant, substantially as illustrated and described, wherein: (a) from the physical standpoint the plant with light green wood has a semi-spreading growth habit, forms abundant shiny leaves, and forms very abundant single flowers which are Spinel red in coloration; and (b) from the biological standpoint the plant has vigorous, low growing and regular vegetation, exhibits an abundant and repeated florescence, and forms petals which detach cleanly.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5272 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.