US Plant Patent PP4663
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 29, 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
- PP4663
- Filed
- October 29, 1979
- Granted
- March 10, 1981
- Expires
- October 29, 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, having a vigorous tall upright habit of growth, for roses of this class, and producing flowers, sometimes singly but usually up to four or more blooms per stem, the blooms being deep orange in color. There are from 15 to 20 petals, of round to obovate shape. The plant is a hardy dwarf bush seedling, of the outdoor type. The open flower has a slight tea fragrance.
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 miniature rose plant, substantially as herein shown and described, and being particularly characterized in that the plant has a vigorous, tall and very upright habit of growth, with strong stems which may bear up to four or more flowers, the overall color effect, both in bud and in flower, being deep orange, the blooms being large for roses of this class, ranging from 1.0 to 1.5 inches in diameter, and comprising from 15 to 20 round to broadly obovate petals.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4663 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.