US Plant Patent PP4658
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 1, 1999. 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
- PP4658
- Filed
- October 1, 1979
- Granted
- March 3, 1981
- Expires
- October 1, 1999
- Assignee
- ARMSTRONG NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- KORDES REIMER
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 half-hardy character, being an outdoor seedling for garden decoration. The plant is of bushy, upright and vigorous growth habit, and much-branched. It is of medium height for roses of the Tea class. Flowers are generally borne singly, ranging from 13 to 15 cm. in diameter. They are, at first opening, a very light pink or a very pale apricot, becoming basically cream-colored, turning to off-white in about three days. Blooms have moderate to strong spicy fragrance. Mildew resistance is above average compared to plants grown under similar conditions.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new variety of asexually reproduced Hybrid Tea rose plant of the outdoor bush type, substantially as herein shown and described, and being particularly characterized by the coloration of its blooms from light pink to pale apricot, to creamy white, said blooms having from 28 to 34 petals, plus 1 to 3 petaloids, and about 125 stigma, said blooms being usually borne one to a stem, and having a strong spicy fragrance.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4658 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.