US Plant Patent PP4357
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 29, 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
- PP4357
- Filed
- September 29, 1977
- Granted
- December 26, 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 rose of the hybrid tea class whose parentage is not known, having a distinct and unusual blending of corals in blooms ranging from bright coral when first opened to smooth, soft, champagne color when full blown, that color being retained for days while on the plant, the flowers being heavily petaled, open, and of distinct rose perfume, good hybrid tea habit, with strong straight stems for cutting and abundance of blooms.
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 hybrid tea class, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the distinct and unusual color of its blooms primarily a medium pink orange, 36-3 blending with 36-2 and ending with a pale pink 36-1 when full blown, the long lastingness of the bloom color on the plant, heavily petaled, open flower form, distinct rose perfume, good tea habit with strong straight stems, the blooms being produced in abundance for cutting.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4357 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.