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US Plant Patent PP5590

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Miniature rose plants

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 1, 2003. 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
PP5590
Filed
August 1, 1983
Granted
December 10, 1985
Expires
August 1, 2003
Inventor
BENNETT CECILIA L D

Abstract

The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant characterized by the delicate blending of yellow, pink and apricot plus the long slender buds on long slender stems.

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, substantially as shown and described, characterized by buds and blossoms of a soft shell pink color, with varying amounts of apricot, similar to Elizabeth of Glamis, being borne singly on long, slender, thornless stems, the plant being dwarf, hardy, rounded, much branched, well foliaged, vigorous, and easily propagated from buds or cuttings.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5590 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.