US Plant Patent PP4671
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 28, 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
- PP4671
- Filed
- December 28, 1979
- Granted
- March 17, 1981
- Expires
- December 28, 1999
- Assignee
- ARMSTRONG NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- DELBARD GEORGES
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 new variety of rose plant of the hybrid Tea class, being a hardy outdoor tall bush seedling, particularly adapted for garden decoration. Medium large, well formed buds and blooms are borne mostly in clusters on long strong stems. Overall color effect is light lavender. Vigorous new growth clothed with large somewhat leathery foliage supports long blooming cycle through most of growing season.
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 herein shown and described, being particularly characterized in the relatively uniform coloration of its light-lavender, well formed medium large blooms, which are borne mostly in clusters on long, strong stems and by a strong fragrance, a blend of citrus and tea, the plant being further characterized in its vigorous new growth and large leaves, bearing almost throughout the growing season.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4671 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.