USPP2115P - Rose plant - Google Patents

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Dec. 26, 1961 s, BQERNER Plant Pat 2,115

ROSE PLANT Filed Feb. 7, 1961.

United States Patent 2,115 ROSE PLANT Eugene S. Boerner, Newark, N.Y., assignor, by mesne assignments, to Home Nursery Products Corporation, Newark, N.Y., a corporation of New York Filed Feb. 7, 1961, Ser. No. 87,727 1 Claim. (Cl. 47-61) The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of rose plant of the floribunda class, which was originated by me by crossing the floribunda variety named Princess White (Plant Patent No. 1,540) with the hybrid tea variety named Golden Masterpiece (Plant Patent No. 1,284).

he primary objective of this breeding was to produce a new fioribunda rose variety which bears larger and more stifl-petaled and longer lasting flowers. This objective was fully achieved, along with other desirable improvements, as evidenced by the following unique combination of characteristics which are outstanding in the new variety and which distinguish it from its parents, as well as from all other varieties of which I am aware:

(I) A free and continuous blooming habit;

(2) Large, stiff-petaled flowers;

(3) Long lasting flower qualities; and

(4) A distinctive clean White general color tonality of the flowers which lasts throughout the blooming period.

A sexual reproduction of my new variety by budding, as performed at Newark, New York, and also at Pleasanton, California, shows that the aforementioned 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 diflerent 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.

Seed parent.Princess White. Pollen parent.Golden Masterpiece. Classification:

Botanic.-Floribunda. Commercial.Floribunda.

Flower (Observations made from specimens grown outdoors at Newark, New York, near mid-afternoon and during the first half of the month of August.)

Blooming habit: Recurrent-continuous; free. Bud:

Size.Medium. Frm.Ovoid; is not affected by wet or hot weather. C0lor.When sepals first divide-Lumiere Green, Plate 17. When petals begin to unfurl-White, 53, lightly overcast with Sea-Foam Yellow, Plate 31. When half-blown: inside of petals White, Plate 53, with lower half of petals lightly overcast with Pale chalcedony Yellow, Plate 17; reverse of petals-White, Plate 53, with base of petals Picric Yello'w, Plate 4. Sepals.-Slightly branched; curl back when petals begin to unturl. Color: inside'Turtle Green, Plate 32; outside-Bi-ce Green, Plate 17. Calyx.-Colorl3ice Green, Plate 17. Shapepear.

SizeSmall. Aspect-smooth. Odor when rubbed-none.

Plant Pat. 2,115 Patented Dec. 26, 1961 ice Peduncle. Length medium. Aspect rough. Strengtherect; slender. Color-Lettuce Green, Plate 5.

Opening-Opens up well; is not affected by adverse weather conditions.

Bloom:

Size.Large. Average size when fully expanded-- 4 /2 inches.

B0rne.-Both singly and several together.

Stems.Medium length; strong.

Form (when first open).Cupped. Permanenceretains its form to the end.

Petalage.-Double (full but open center). Number of petals under normal conditions-from 30 to 35.

Colon-Center of llower-White, Plate 53, with lower half of petals lightly overcast with Pale Chalcedony Yellow, Plate 5. Outer petals-White, Plate 53. Base of petals (aiglet)-Light Chalcedony Yellow, Plate 5. Inside of petalsWhite, Plate 53. Reverse of petalsWhite, Plate 53. General tonality from a distance-White, Plate 53.

Discoloration.-General tonality at end of first d-ay White, Plate 53. Second dayWhite, Plate 53. Third dayWhite, Plate 53.

Petals:

Texture.-Leathery; stiff; is not affected by wet or hot weather.

Appearance.lnsidesatiny. Outside-shiny.

Arrangem ent.lmbricated (regularly arranged shingle-like).

Petaloids in semen-Few; large.

Persistence.Drop oif cleanly.

Fragrance.M-oderate. Nature-tea (average hybrid tea scent).

Lasting quality.0n the plantlong. As cut flower long.

Genital organs Stamens, anthers: Medium size; many; regularly arranged around styles. Color-Strontian Yellow, Plate 16.

Stamens, filaments (threads): Long. ColorSulphur Yellow, Plate 5.

Pollen: ColorBarium Yellow, Plate 16.

Styles: Bunched; uneven length; medium length; thin.

Stigmas: COlorNaphthalene Yellow, Plate 16.

Ovaries: Some protruding from calyx.

Hips: None.

Seeds: None.

Plant sideleathery. Under side' 7 3 Wood: 7

New w0od.:Color -,Yellowish Oil Green, Plate 5.

Bark--smooth.

Old w00d.-C0lorCedar Green, Plate 6. Bark smooth.

Thorns:

T h0rns.-Quantity: on main stalks from base-ordinary; on laterals from stalk-ordinary. Formflat base; medium length; straight. Color (when young)Eugenia Red, Plate 13. Position-irregular. Prickles.Quantity: on main stalks-none; on laterals-none.

4 Short needles-Quantity: on main stalksnone; on

laterals-none I claim: A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the fiori- 5 bunda class, substantially as herein shown and described,

10 flowers which lasts throughout the blooming period.

No references cited.

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