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Aug. 28, 1956 w w, WAY Plant Pat. 1,508

VIOLA PLANT Filed Oct. 31, 1955 VIOLA PLANT Walter Willard Way, deceased, late of Santa Barbara, Calif., by Mabel P. Way, executrix, Santa Barbara, Calif., assignor to Jackson & Perkins Company, Newark, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application October 31, 1955, Serial No. 544,099 1 Claim. (Cl. 47-60) The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of viola plant which was originated by me from the planting of seeds of the viola variety known as Purple Heart (Plant Patent No. 671).

My new viola plant is particularly characterized as to novelty and is distinguished from its parent variety, as well as from all other varieties of its class of which I am aware, by its low-growing habit of growth, its heavy and clean foliage, and its large white flowers which are borne on plants which are reblooming and perennial in climatic regions corresponding to up-State New York.

Asexual reproduction of my new variety by root divisions and cuttings, as performed in perennial blocks in a nursery at Newark, New York, shows that the fore going characteristics and distinctions come true to form and are established and transmitted through succeeding propagations.

The accompanying drawing shows typical specimens of the vegetative growth and flowers 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 Ridgways Color Standards and Nomenclature:

Parentage: Seedling of viola Purple Heart." Classification: Botanic-viola hybrid.

FLOWER (Observations made from plants grown outdoors at Blooming habit: Recurrent; perennial in habit; blooms all season.

Plant Pat. 1,508

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2 Bud:

Size.-Medium.

Colon-When sepals first divide-Light Dull Green- Yellow, Plate 17. When petals begin to unfurl- Pale Chalcedony Yellow, Plate 17. When halfblown: inside of petalsWhite, Plate 53, lightly overcast with Sea-Foam Yellow, Plate 31, with eye of Empire Yellow, Plate 4; reverse of petals- White, Plate 53, lightly overcast with Sea-Foam Yellow, Plate 31.

Sepals.-Branched; 5 in number.

Green, Plate 18.

Bloom:

Size.Large. Average size (when fully expanded): Length-from 3 inches to 3 /2 inches; width--from 2 inches to 2% inches.

Stems.-Medium length; from 5 inches to 6 inches in length; strong. Color--Mineral Green, Plate 18.

Petalage.5 petals in number; petals medium thickness; not afiected by hot or cold weather.

Petals.Inside-velvety; outside-shiny.

C0l0r.-2 upper petalsWhite, Plate 53, with eye of Empire Yellow, Plate 4; fluted. 2 side petals- White, Plate 5 3, with eye of Empire Yellow, Plate 4 and with base of Light Luminere Green, Plate 17, forming part of the eye. Lower petal: upper sideWhite, Plate 53; reverse side-White, Plate 53.

Fragrance: Moderate Viola fragrance. Lasting quality: On the plant-long; as cut flower-long.

PLANT Color--Varley reblooming and perennial in climatic regions corresponding to up-State New York.

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