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US Plant Patent PP4430

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Rose plant

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 5, 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
PP4430
Filed
May 5, 1978
Granted
June 26, 1979
Expires
May 5, 1998
Inventor
BAILEY DOROTHY J S

Abstract

A novel rose variety of the hybrid tea class characterized by flowers of unique red and yellow coloring, high-center blooms, usually borne singly on a vigorous upright growing plant as shown and described.

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 shown and described, characterized particularly by flowers of unique red and yellow coloring resulting from petals with upper red velvety surface and yellow satiny reverse displaying a variable general tonality upon opening, high-center blooms holding form well upon aging and thick petals such that the blooms last well on the plant and as a cut flower, borne usually singly on a vigorous upright, growing plant with abundant, strong foliage.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4430 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.