US Plant Patent PP4426
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 28, 1998. 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
- PP4426
- Filed
- April 28, 1978
- Granted
- June 12, 1979
- Expires
- April 28, 1998
- Inventor
- WILLIAMS ERNEST D
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
The present miniature rose, subject of this disclosure, is primarily characterized by the basically white bud and flower and the unique blending or edging of petals with shades of soft to deep rose pink color.
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 of hardy, dwarf, bushy, upright, much branched habit, essentially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers of a basic white or near white color with the upper petal surfaces shaded, blended or tinted with light to deep pink color of varying hue and intensity, ranging from very soft shades of Neyron Rose to deeper shades of rose pink to lavenderish pink, depending upon conditions of culture and intensity of direct sunlight; the form and size of bud and flower resembling Easter Morning; and further characterized by a plant which is vigorous and relatively compact, said plant being easy to propagate from cuttings, with medium small, disease resistant matt foliage, an abundance of bloom with excellent keeping qualities, with flowers borne singly or several to the stem in loose clusters.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4426 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.