USPP1316P - Rose plant - Google Patents

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Nov. 9, 1954 R. G. JELLY ROSE PLANT Filed Oct. 26, 1953 Plant Pat. 1,316

i United States Patent O ROSE PLANT Robert G. Jelly, Richmond, Ind., assignor to E. G. Hill Co., Inc., Richmond, Ind., a corporation of Indiana Application October 26, 1953, Serial No. 388,468

1 Claim. (Cl. 47-61) The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of rose plant of the hybrid tea class which was originated by me by crossing two unnamed and unpatented seedlings of unknown Origin.

The primary objective of this breedmg was to create a new productive pink rose that is suitable for forcing under commercial greenhouse conditions. This objective was fully achieved, and my new variety is additionally characterized by its strikingly erect habit of growth, by its relatively long-pointed, large and perfectly formed buds which open into a high-centered, well-formed flower of a distnctive pink general color tonality, and by the supenor keeping quality of its blooms.

'Ihe foregoing characteristics definitely distinguish my new variety from its parents, as well as from all other varieties of its class, and represent a unique combination of characteristics never attained heretofore, so far as I am aware.

Asexual rcproduction of my new variety by grafting at Richmond, Indiana, and by budding at San Leandro, California, shows that the foregoing characteristics and distinctions come true to form and are established and transmitted through succeeding propagations.

The accompanying drawing shows typical specimens of the flowers, foliage and stems of my new variety in different stages of development and depicted in color as nearly true as it is reasonably possible to make the same in a color illustration of this character.

The following is a detailed description of my new variety, with color terminology in accordance with Ridgways' Color Standards and Nomenclature:

Type: Bush; greenhouse; seedling; for cut-flower produc tion.

Class: Hybrid tea.

Breeding: Seedling.

Seed parenL-Au unnamed seedling of unknown parentage.

Pollen parafia- An unnamed seedling of unknown parentage.

Propagation: Holds its distinguishing characteristics through succeeding propagations by both grafting and budding.

Flower Peduncle.-Medium length; medium diameter; erect; medium strong; almost smooth; no thoms or hairs, but with few prickles of Straw Yellow, Plate XVI, color. Color-Biscay Green, Plate XVII, shading to Saccardo's Olive, Plate XVI.

Before calyx breaks.-Size-medium. Formshort-pointed; with a conspicuous -neck; with occasional foliaceous appedages on Che surface of the bud; with foliaceons parts extending beyond the tip of the bud equal to 1% or more of its length. Color Cress Green, Plate XXXI.

A: calyx brealml-Color-Rose Doree, Plate I at the etal margin, shading to Pale Lemon Yellow,

late IV at base, with intermediate or basic color Bittersweet Pink, Plate IL As first petal opens.-Size-medium-large. Formlong-pointed. Color: outside-Rose Doree, Plate I at the petal margin, shading to Pale Lemon Yellow, Plate IV at base, with intermediate or basic color Bittersweet Pink, Plate II; inside- Rose Doree, Plate I at petal margin, shading to Pale Lemon Yellow, Plate IV at base, with intermediate or basic color Bittersweet Pink, Plate II.

Opening.-Opens up well in greenhouse; is not affected by hot weather except for normal reduction of flower size.

Bloom:

Size (when fully open).--Large; from 5 to 6 inches.

Petalage.-Double; from 28 to 36 petals; arranged regularly.

Form.-High-centered at first; becoming very highcentered; petals being at first tightly and slightly rolled outward, but becoming only slightly rolled outward at maturity.

Petals: Moderately thick; leathery; with both inside and outside satiny.

Shape. Outside-ovate; apex slightly mucronate, with 1 to several notches. Intermediateslightly ovate, with apex slightly obtuse to flat. Innerround; apex mucronate, with l notch (cleft).

This description of a newly opened flower was made from a rose grown in a greenhouse in the month of March, at Richmond, Indiana:

This description was made from a rose that was open I for three days in a greenhouse in the month of March, at Richmond, Indiana:

Colon- Outside petal: Outside surface-Hermosa Pink, Plate I, shading to Shrimp Pink, Plate I, with base Straw Yellow, Plate XVI. Inside surface-Shrimp Pink, Plate I, shading to Seashell Pmk, Plate XIV, with base Lemon Chrome, Plate IV. Intermediate petal: Outside surface-Thulite Pink, Plate XXVI; margin shading to Hermosa Pmk, Plate I; with base Massicot Yellow, Plate XVI. Inside surface- Hermosa Pink, Plate I, with base Strontian Yellow, Plate XVI. Inner petal: Outside surface-Thulite Pink, Plate XXVI, with base Strontian Yellow, Plate XVI. Inside surface-Cameo Pink, Plate XXVI, shading to Shell Pink, Plate XXVIII, with base Strontian Yellow, Plate XVI.

General color efiecL-Newly opened flower-Spinel Pink, Plate XXVI. 3-days open-Hermosa Pink, Plate I.

Behavior (in greenhouse). Persist; unafl'ected by hot or dry weather; fading Hermosa Pink, Plate I to Shrimp Pink, Plate I.

Flower longevity.-Cut flowers grown in greenhouse a nd lept at living-room temperatures-S days in arc normally abundant; medium size; moderately leathery.

Leaflets.Shape-oval. Apex-acute to cuspidate.

Base-obtuse. Margin-serrate. Color-Mature; upper surface-Dusky Olive Green, Plate XLII; under surface-Pea Green, Plate XLVII.

Young: upper surfaee-Burnt Lake, Plate XII; under surface-Acajou Red, Plate XIII. Rachismedium. Upper side-grooved; prickly; under side-smooth. Stpules-very short; very narrow; without points; with very short globular ends turning out at an angle of 90. Growth (in greenhouse):

Habit.-Upright; branched. Growth.-Moderately free.

J Canon-Medium diameter.

narrow base. Color-Bordeaux, Plate XIII* Prickles-few. Color-Bordeaux, Plate XII. Hairs-none.

Reproductive organs Stamens: Medium number; arranged regularly; tucked in ca yx. Filaments: Medium length; with anthers. Color-Light Cadmium, Plate IV.

Anthers: Medium; all open at once. Color-Light Orange Yellow, Plate VI.

Pollen: Moderate. Color-Honey Yellow, Plate XXX.

Pistils: Many. i

Styles: Uneven; medium length; medium heavy; bunched.

Color-Lemon Chrome, Plate IV.

Stigma: Colorpectrum Red, Plate I.

Ovar'ies: Some protruding from calyx.

Hips: Long; ovod; with inconspicuous neck; pear-shaped;

prickly; walls thick and fieshy. Color-Primuline Yellow, Plate XVI.

Sepals: Permanent; medium length; reeurved.

Color. Inside Deep Chrysolite Green, Plate XXXI. Outside-Absinthe Green, Plate XXXI. Seeds: Many; large.

I claim:

A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the hybrid tea class, substantially as herein shown and described, characterzed partcularly as to novelty by its very erect habit of growth, by its relatively large, long-ponted, perfectly shaped buds which open into high-centered and well-formed fiowers of a distinctive pink general color tonality, by the Superior keeping quality of its blooms, and bv its suitability for forcing under commercial greenhouse conditions.

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