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US 5,060,420 AGranted
Combination marketing and planting package for plant bulbs
OwnerRandal E. Bergmaninventor
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for marketing and planting plant bulbs. The apparatus includes a bag for enclosing a plant bulb, a filament attached to the bag for lowering the bag to a preferred depth in a planting hole, and an identifier element attached to the filament for identifying the variety of the plant bulb and the color of the flowers produced by the bulb.
Claims10
Apparatus for planting a plant bulb in soil at a preferred soil depth, comprising:
- (a) a water porous bag for enclosing said plant bulb;
- (b) a limp filament attached to said bag, the length of said filament being sufficient to extend above the soil when said plant bulb is plated at said preferred depth;
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- (c) identifier means for identifying said plant bulb, said identifier means being connected to said filament at a point which extends above the soil when said plant bulb is plated at said preferred depth,
- wherein said filament is marked at a predetermined distance from the bottom of said bag to indicate said preferred depth for planting said plant bulb.
2 more elements
A method of marketing and planting plant bulbs comprising:
- (a) providing a water-porous bag;
- (b) enclosing a plant bulb of known variety and flower colour in said bag;
- (c) providing a limp filament having a marking thereon and attached at one end thereof to said bag such that the displacement between said marking and the bottom of said bag equals the preferred depth for planting said bulb;
- (d) attaching the other end of said filament to a label which identifies said bulb's variety and flower colour;
- (e) lowering said bag to said preferred planting depth in a planting hole until said marking is level with the soil surface, such that said label extends above the soil surface;
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- (f) placing soil around said bulb to maintain it at said preferred planting depth.
4 more elements
A method of marketing and planting plant bulbs comprising:
- (a) providing a water porous bag;
- (b) enclosing a plant bulb of known variety and flower colour in said bag;
- (c) providing a limp filament having a marking thereon and attached at one end thereof to said bag such that the displacement between said marking and the bottom of said bag equals the preferred depth for planting said bulb;
- (d) lowering said bag to said preferred planting depth in a planting hole until said marking is level with the soil surface;
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- (e) placing soil around said bulb to maintain said bulb at said preferred planting depth.
3 more elements
A method of marketing and planting plant bulbs comprising:
- (a) providing a water-porous bag;
- (b) enclosing a plant bulb of known variety and flower colour in said bag;
- (c) attaching one end of a limp filament to said bag;
- (d) attaching a second end of said filament to a label which identifies the bulb's variety and flower colour, such that the displacement between said filament second end and said bag bottom equals the preferred depth for planting said bulb;
- (e) lowering said bag into a planting hole to said preferred planting depth until said filament second end is level with the soil surface and said label extends above said soil surface;
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- (f) placing soil around said bulb to maintain said bulb at said preferred planting depth.
4 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.