US Plant Patent PP4330
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 30, 1997. 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
- PP4330
- Filed
- November 30, 1977
- Granted
- November 7, 1978
- Expires
- November 30, 1997
- Assignee
- ARMSTRONG NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- DELBARD GEORGES
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
A somewhat tender seedling bush rose of the Floribunda class, for greenhouse and outdoor cultivation, both for cut flowers and for garden decoration, characterized primarily in that the coloration of its blooms is a rather unique shade of orange. The flowers are large, relatively speaking, in comparison with roses of the Floribunda class, and contain comparatively large numbers of petals and petaloids. The plant is a free to vigorous grower and its peduncles carry numerous stipitate glands and a few small prickles.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinct variety of Floribunda rose plant substantially as described and illustrated herein, said plant being of free to vigorous growth habit, and having numerous stipitate glands and a few small prickles on its peduncles, the flowers of said plant being characterized in that they are from about 31/4 to about 4 inches in diameter, and comprise from 25 to 36 petals with 5 to 7 petaloids, and have an overall coloration which is substantially entirely expressed in shades of orange.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4330 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.