USPP2023P - Chrysanthemum plant - Google Patents

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u CHRYSANTHEMUM PLANT Filed Sept. 16, 3.959

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United States Patent 2,023 l CHRYSANTHEMUM PLANT .Orville o. Dunham, Rte. 4, Nues, Mich.

Filed sept. 16, 1959, ser'. N0. stogss v l 1 claim. (ci. 41-60) 'My'present invention comprises a new and distinct variety of chrysanthemum plant which is the result of Plant Pat. 2,023

Patented Feb. 7, 1961 nice . Number 53136.

My new variety when grown in the regionof Niles, Michigan, blooms from early September continuously until a killing frost, the blooms being small in size and clusters with profuse numbers of blooms on-each 1i Want.

a tLittle Dorrit.

crossing the variety "Little Dorrit an unpateuted` variety, with a variety of my own introduction, likewise unpatented and which I designate as seedling Number 53136.

The object of this invention has been to produce a new variety of chrysanthemum plant of the ndicum type which derives the color of its blooms from both parents, a darker color from one, and a lighter color from the other, but which will constitute an improvement over either of the parents with better shape, bloom and additionally provide early and continuous blooming habits.

For a period of time I have been conducting an intensive program of development, and this present new variety is one of the results thereof, which has required the careful selection and cross-breeding of various plants, basically those of the American garden chrysanthemum type, so-called with the plants of the type known as the English early chrysanthemum. In conducting this program I have endeavored to take advantage of the continuous flowering features of the English early chrysanthemum with the early owering feature of the American garden chrysanthemum and some of the attributes of the latterrelating to the continuous nature of its bloom.

The result of the specific hybridization previously referred to has been to produce my present new and distinct variety of chrysanthemum plant characterized by the strong reddish purple to light purplish pink color of its blooms, the small honeycomb-like globular form thereof, the compact shape of the plant, and its better, early, continuous and long blooming habit.

More specilically, the blooms of my new variety are of the strong reddish purple to light purplish pink color (Nickerson Color Fan published by the Munsell Company), the blooms having the lighter outer color with a darker center. As grown in the vicinity of Niles, Michi gan, in uniform culture. plants of my new variety have grown to an average height of l2 to 16".

My new variety derives a number of characteristics from both parents, but better characteristics than either separately and my new variety differs from both of its parents and from other known varieties in many respects.

In comparing the colorA of my new variety with the color of the blooms of the variety Little Dorrit, I note that the color of the latter has apparently been transmitted to the seedling hereof so as to provide a lighter outer portion of the bloom whereas the inner or center portion of the bloom appears to have derived its color from the parent seedling Number 53136. The petal arrangement in my new variety is similar to the parent Number 53136 but the blooms are more uniform, and globular than those of the variety Little Dorrit. The petal arrangement of my new variety is very double and innumerable petals vare found under normal conditions.

v The earliness and continuous blooming habit and dwarfed, compact shape derives from the pollen parent, seedling Number 53136, and small honeycomb-like globular blooms .are vsuperior to those of the seed parent My new variety hasxbeen aseitually `reproduced by cuttings in the vicinity of Niles, Michigan. v :.r

My new variety has been found to have retained its distinctive characteristics through successive asexual reproduction.

The accompanying drawing forming a part hereof shows a typical plant of my new variety of chrysanthemum plant.

The following is a detailed description of my new variety of chrysanthemum plant, the color references being to the Nickerson Color Fan published by the Munsell Color Company:

Description form (English origin- Flower Blooming habit: Blooms profusely and continuously from early in September until a killing frost. Observations were made in the vicinity of Niles, Michigan, during September.

Bud:

Form-Short with at tcp. Not affected materially by hot or wet weather.

Color:

When petals begin to unfurl.-7.5RP 5/ 12.

When half blown.-Inside 0f petals-7.5RP 6/12.

Reverse of petals-SRP 8/5.

Sepals.-Of no consequence.

Calyx.Shape-funnel. Size--smalL hairy.

Peduncle. Length medium. Aspect-rough, hairy. Strength-stiff, erect. Bud opens well and is not affected by adverse conditions.

Bloom:

Borna-In clusters, pyramidal and irregular.

Stemra-Short, strong.

Form-When iirst open-globular. Permanence -retains its form to the end.

Petalage.-Very double, Number of petals under normal conditions-innumerable.

CoIor.-Center of flower-7.5M 4/11 washed with 7.5RP 6/12. Outer petals-2.5RP 6/10 washed with 2.5RP 8/5. Base of petals (singlet) -2.5RP 6/10. Inside of petals-2.5K? 6/10. Reverse of petals-2.5K? 9/2. General tonality Aspect- Average size when fully expanded Textura-Thin;- Not "affected `byvwet Y'or lhozf" LastingnssLQ-On lthe plante-very' long. Cut flower very long.

n Arrangement.-Regular around styles. i

Stamens, lam'ents'z Medium.l` Colon-white; Pollen: 2.5GY 9/8 brilliant yellow 'gre'el'Ll Styles: 1 Columnar.`

, 4 Stigmas: Color-white. Ovariesr All enclosed -in lealyx.n Plant Form: Bush. Growth: vigorous, dwarf, branching, compact. Foliage:

Sze.-Small.

vety. Ribs vand veins-ordinary.

I claim:

A new and distinct variety of chrysanthemum plant substantially as herein disclosed, characterized as to novelty by strong reddish purple to light purplsh pink color of its blooms, the small honeycomb-like globular for`m" the'reo`f, thefcompac't 'shape of the plant,vand its better',- early," continuous" and long blooin'ing habit.

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