US Plant Patent PP4659
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 24, 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
- PP4659
- Filed
- October 24, 1979
- Granted
- March 3, 1981
- Expires
- October 24, 1999
- Assignee
- ARMSTRONG NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- CHRISTENSEN JACK E
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 rose plant of the hybrid miniature class, being a dwarf bush outdoor seedling chiefly used for garden decoration. Flowers are large, for roses of this class, ranging from 11/2 to 2 inches, and comprising 18 to 28 petals with 1 to 7 petaloids. Color effect is of orange-apricot and yellow, the blooms having a slight fragrance and being borne on strong stems of average or better length. The growth habit is very vigorous, the plant being much branched and bushy.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. An outdoor bush rose plant of the hybrid miniature class, substantially as shown and described, being a dwarf seedling mainly used for garden decoration, said plant being much branched and bushy and bearing its blooms usually singly on strong, medium-length to long stems, said blooms being from about 1.5 to 2.0 inches in diameter, having 18 to 28 petals and 1 to 7 petaloids, the overall color effect of the newly opened flower being orange-apricot and yellow.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4659 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.