US Plant Patent PP4723
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 9, 2000. 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
- PP4723
- Filed
- January 9, 1980
- Granted
- May 26, 1981
- Expires
- January 9, 2000
- 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 hybrid floribunda rose plant of the tall bush type particularly adapted for green house cultivation and having a vigorous growth habit and a tendency to bloom heavily, throughout most of the growing season. The blooms are of a two-tone deep coloration, the centers of the new blooms being of a deeper pink which accentuates their classic form. Cut flowers usually preserve their freshness for a vase life longer than average for roses of this class.
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 floribunda class, substantially as shown and described herein, and being particularly characterized by the vigor of its growth habit and the profusion of its blooms, said blooms being of a two-toned pink coloration which accentuates the classic form of the new blooms, said flowers having moderately thick heavy petals, and preserving their freshness over a vase life somewhat longer than average for roses of this class.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4723 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.