US Plant Patent PP4707
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 26, 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
- PP4707
- Filed
- December 26, 1979
- Granted
- May 5, 1981
- Expires
- December 26, 1999
- Assignee
- ARMSTRONG NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- SWIM HERBERT C; ELLIS ARNOLD W
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 hybrid tea rose, being a tender seedling of the tall bush type, well adapted for greenhouse cultivation. The plant is of upright-bushy habit, moderately branched and moderately vigorous in growth. Blooms are borne singly, and have a uniform all-over pink coloration which lightens with maturity to a pink color slightly less deep than at first opening. There is a moderate tea fragrance, with a somewhat spicy cast.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We 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 its tendency to carry its blooms singly on normal to strong medium-length to long stems, the blooms being generally from 31/2 to 41/2 inches across, and having a relatively uniform pink coloration throughout, with from about 35 to 45 petals.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4707 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.