US Plant Patent PP4986
rose No. 76-23R
Seedling rose No. 76-23R
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 10, 2001. 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
- PP4986
- Filed
- September 10, 1981
- Granted
- March 1, 1983
- Expires
- September 10, 2001
- Assignee
- JOSEPH H HILL COMPANY
- Inventor
- HOY JR LOWELL L
Abstract
A red grandiflora rose for greenhouse culture and the production of cut flowers, this new variety being characterized by its free, vigorous, upright and much branched growth habit with free and abundant continuous production of flowers in greenhouse; a particular distinctiveness of this new variety being its attractive, long pointed bud at cutting stage, its excellent vase life as a cut flower and its abundant production of foliage comprising leaves of relatively large size.
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, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its abundant and continuous production of flowers, its free and vigorous growth habit and its long pointed bud at cutting stage.
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