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Jan. 18, 1955 G. DE RUITER ROSE PLANT Filed April 8, 1954 Plant Pat. 1,341

United States Patent O Tee ROSE PLANT Gerrit De Ruiter, Hazerswoude, Netherlands, assignor to The COllfil'd-PYIG Company, West Grove, Pa., a corporation of Pennsylvania Application April 8, 1954, Serial No. 421,993

1 Claim. (c1. 47- 61) The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of rose plant of the large-flowered hybrid polyantha class, commonly called floribunda, which was originated by me by crossing the variety Better Times (Plant Patent No. 23) with an unnamed and unpatented polyantha seedling.

As the result of this breeding, I have produced a new variety of rose which is particularly characterized by its distinctive color, said color being a deep tone of Crimson Carmine, but when observed from an angle has a bluish appearance which is not apparent when viewed directly.

In addition to this characteristic, the plants of my new variety are vigorous and very free-blooming, and my new variety also has better than average resistance to blackspot.

The foregoing characteristics, taken together, represent an unusual and desirable combination of features which distinguishes my new variety from its parents, as well as from all other varieties of its class.

Asexual reproduction of my new variety by budding, as performed at Hazerswoude, Holland, and also atWest Grove, Pennsylvania, shows that the foregoing characteristics and distinctions come true to form and are established and transmitted through succeeding propagations.

The accompanying drawingshows typical specimens of the flowers and foliage of my new variety in different stages of development and as 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 Ridg- Ways Color Standards and Nomenclature (hereinafter abbreviated as Ridgway), and with the Royal Horticultural Society Color Chart (hereinafter abbreviated as Royal) where the Ridgway Chart is inadequate, except where general color terms of ordinary dictionary significance are obvious:

Type: Hardy; bush; outdoor; seedling; for cut-flowers and for garden decoration. Class: Hybrid polyantha. Breeding: Seedling.

Seed parent.Better Times. Pollen parent.--An unnamed polyantha seedling. Propagation: Holds its distinguishing characteristics through succeeding propagations by budding.

FLOWER Locality where grown and observed: West Grove, Pennsylvania.

Flowers borne: Several to stem; in irregular cluster; on

medium length stems of normal strength.

Quantity of bloom: Free, outdoors.

Continuity: Continuous.

Fragrance: Moderate.

Bud:

Peduncle.-Mediurn length; erect; rough; numerous red prickles. ColorPompeian Red, Plate XIII (Ridgway).

Before calyx breaks.-Size--small. Formshort; globular; with a conspicuous neck; with foliaceous appendages on the surface of the bud; with slender, much-cut, bristle-like foliaceous parts extending beyond the tip of the bud equal to 1% times its length.

As calyx breaks.--Color-Oxblood Red, Tone 3,

Plate 94 (Royal).

Plant Pat. 1,341 Patented Jan. 18, 1955 Petalage.-Double; from 24 to 27 petals; arranged regularly.

Form-Open-cupped at first; remaining opencupped; petals being at first loosely rolled outward, and remaining rolled outward through maturity.

Petals: Medium thickness; leathery; with inside velvety and outside satiny.

Shape.-Outer petals-obovate, usually with l notch,

but occasionally none. Intermediate petalsobovate, with l notch. Inner petals-obovate, with l notch.

This description of a newly opened flower was made from a rose grown outdoors in the monthof September, at West Grove, Pennsylvania:

Col0r.Outer petal: outside surfaceevenly dis- 30 tributed Lilac Purple, Tone 4, Plate 160 (Royal);

inside surfaceGeraniurn Red, Tone 4, Plate 111 (Royal), shading to Crimson Carmine, Tone 3,

Plate 159 (Royal). Intermediate petal: outside surfaceLilac Purple, Tone 3, Plate 160 (Royal);

inside surface-entirely Crimson Carmine, Tone 3, Plate 159 (Royal). Inner petal: outside surfaceLilac Purple, Tone 2, Plate 160 (Royal);

often with a white streak or streaks radiating out from base; inside surface-Crimson Carmine, Tone 3, Plate 159 (Royal).

This description was made from a rose that was open for three days outdoors in the month September, at West Grove, Pennsylvania:

Col0r.Outer petal: outside surfaceevenly Crimson Carmine, Tone 3, Plate 159 (Royal); sometimes shaded at outer edges and at center of petal with a color darker than Crimson Carmine, Tone 4, Plate 159 (Royal); inside surface-deeper color than Crimson Carmine, Tone 4, Plate 159 (Royal), shading into Crimson Carmine, Tone 4, Plate 159 (Royal), and then to Lilac Purple, Tone 1, Plate 160 (Royal). Inner petal: outside surfacean even tone of Crimson Carmine, Tone 2, Plate 159 (Royal) over entire surface, except for an occasional white streak from base to apex; in-

side surfaceCrimson Carmine, Tone 4, Plate 159 (Royal), shading into Crimson Carmine, Tone 1, Plate 159 (Royal) towards base. General color efiect.Newly opened fiower-an iridescent Crimson Carmine, of a deeper tone than Tone 4, Plate 159 (Royal). 3-days open-an iridescent Crimson Carmine, Tone 4, Plate 159 (Royal), having a bluish tinge when viewed in indirect light. Behavi0r.Drop oil cleanly.

Flower longevity.-On bush in garden-4 days in September. Cut roses grown outdoors and kept at living-room temperatures4 days in September.

REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS Stamens: Few to medium number; arranged regularly about pistils.

Filaments: Few without anthers; medium length. ColorPinard Yellow, Plate IV (Ridgway).

Anthers: All open at once; medium size; occasionally. an anther fused with a petaloid. Color-Butt Yellow, Plate IV (Ridgway).

Pollen: Moderate abundance. ColorWax Yellow,

Plate XVI (Ridgway).

Pistils: Medium number.

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3 4 Styles: Uneven; medium length; medium caliper; bunched. Growth: Stigma: Color--Citron Yellow, Plate XVI (Ridgway). Habit.-'Bushy; much-branched. Ovaries: All enclosed in calyx. Growth.Vigorous. Hips: None. Canes.Medium caliper. Sepals: Permanent; long; straight; spear-shaped. 5 Main stems.Colr-Biscay Green, Plate XVII .S eeds --None.

(Ridgway). Thornsseveral; medium length; PLANT. straight; pointed downward; with short, broad,

oval base. Prickles-several. Hairsnone.

'Fdliage: Branches.-Color-Light Bice Green, Plate XVII Leaves.-Compound of or 7 leaflets; normal abun- 10 (Ridgway) dance; medium size; leathery, with slight gloss. Thorns-Many; medmm length;

. straight; pointed slightly downward; with medium g g gfigf g agi g length, oval base. Prickles-several red prickles serrat. V I g towards top of plant. Ha1rs none.

Color.-Mature: upper surface-dark dull .Yellow- N gafg gg q' 9gfigggi ggi $22 53? Green, Plate XXXII (Ridgway); under surfacet 1 I b 5 Asphodel Green, Plate XLI (Ridgway), tinged f ralg i gova nc with Acajou Red, Plate XIII (Ridgway). Young: es many re 18 co a1rs none' upper surface-Victoria Lake, Plate I (Ridgway); .I claim: a under surface-Livid Brown, Plate XXXIX (Ridg- A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the hybrid way). polyantha class, substantially as herein shown and de- Rachis (the supporting stem of the compound scribed, characterized particularly as to novelty by its leaf) .-Upper side-grooved; prickly on margins; vigorous and very free-blooming habit, by its better-thanhairy at bottom of groove. Under sidesparsely average resistance to blackspot, and by the distinctive prickly and thorny. deep tone of Crimson Carmine general color tonality of Stipules.--Medium length; moderately narrow; with its blooms which have a bluish tinge when viewed indilong points turning out at a variable angle. rectly. Disease resistance.Resistant to blackspot as compared with other varieties grown under com- No references cited.

parable cultural conditions at West Grove, Penn- 3o sylvania.

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