US Plant Patent PP4559
Hiltaco
Red rose seedling named Hiltaco
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 28, 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
- PP4559
- Filed
- February 28, 1979
- Granted
- July 1, 1980
- Expires
- February 28, 1999
- Assignee
- E G HILL CO INC
- Inventor
- JELLY ROBERT G
Abstract
A red floribunda rose for greenhouse culture for the production of cut flowers, this new plant being characterized by a very free growth habit and good winter productivity, the lustrous red color of its blooms with excellent keeping tendencies, the much reduced occurrence of blind wood, and the strong resistance of its foliage to mildew.
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 rose plant cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its abundant and continuous production of lustrous red flowers, its very free growth habit with good winter productivity, and its resistance to mildew and the occurrence of blind wood.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4559 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.