Rose plant — plant patent PP4323

The record

Patent number

PP4323

Filed

September 29, 1977

Granted

October 24, 1978

Expires

September 29, 1997

Inventor

WEEKS O L

No cultivar name of record

This patent does not name the plant, and for its era that is ordinary rather than an omission. Before about 1980, breeders frequently patented a plant without giving it a cultivar name at all — the grant identified it by its number, its parentage and a written description of the flower and foliage. Most plant patents from the 1930s to the 1970s have no name in them.

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

There is disclosed a new variety of climber rose which is completely distinctive from its parent "China Doll" U.S. Plant Pat. No. 678, in that it grows as a climber, the parent being a low bush, and the flowers are produced on stems that grow as laterals in contrast to the clusters which characterize the parent, the color of the flowers and leaves being otherwise substantially identical as can be determined.

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 rose plant of the climbing class, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the long, strong and vigorous canes which attain an average mature height of 4 to 6 feet, the habit of bearing flowers on stems which grow as laterals from the climbing canes while retaining the desirable characteristics of polyanthas in color and quantity of blooms and foliage.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4323 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.