US Plant Patent PP4503
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 15, 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
- PP4503
- Filed
- December 15, 1978
- Granted
- February 19, 1980
- Expires
- December 15, 1998
- Assignee
- ARMSTRONG NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- MCGREDY IV SAMUEL
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
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 Hybrid Tea rose of medium height raised as an outdoor seedling for garden decoration. It is moderately hardy according to tests conducted by All-American Rose Selections, Inc. It has more than average resistance to mildew. It has an upright-spreading growth habit and produces blooms almost continuously during the growing season. The blooms have a strong fragrance suggesting a blend of citrus and spice. Their color is coral-salmon. The flowers are borne generally on single medium-length strong stems.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. An asexually reproduced rose plant of the Hybrid Tea class, substantially as herein illustrated and described, being especially characterized in a vigorous upright-spreading growth habit and a tendency to bear its blooms singly, on strong stems of medium length, said plant further being characterized in the coral-salmon color of its blooms, and the strong citrus-and-spice fragrance of the same.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4503 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.