USPP478P - Carnation plant - Google Patents

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July 1, 1941. O s HONAKER Plant Pat. 478

CARNATION PLANT Filed Feb. 10, 1941 0. 5 y mumfl @M Patented July 1, 1941 Plant Pat. 478

UNITEDISTATES PATENT OFFICE? CARNATION PLANT Ollie S. Honaker, Lexington, Ky. Application February 10, 1941, Serial No. 378,293

" 1 Claim. (Cl. 47-60) The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of carnation plant, the result of a definite effort to produce a characteristically new type of flower having reference to varieties of carnation at present well known.

The objective has been realized in the attainment herein set forth, in that this carnation possesses a very desirable color with excellent growth characteristics not represented in production at the present time. Perhaps, the nearest of old or known varieties similar to the present is Patrician, one of its parents, the similarity residing primarily however in the growth characteristic, but differing therefrom essentially in productivity and color of blossom.

More specifically, the present carnation is very prolific, produces large, full flowers of a very pleasing shade of rose and on very stiif and erect stems. One of its interesting distinctions resides in the fact that rarely, if ever, does its calyx split, and I find it further a good producer of cuttings and disease resistant.

With these dominating features of novelty in mind, I now set forth a more detailed description, in which color terminology refers to Ridgways Color Standard:

Type: Tall; greenhouse; seedling; for out flowers. Breeding or discovery: Seedling.

Seed parent-Patrician. Pollen parent.King Cardinal; Propagation: By cuttings.

Flower Locality where grown: In greenhouses at Lexington, Kentucky. Bud:

erect Before calya: breaks.S i z e-m e d i u m.

As first petal opens..Size-1arge, Form-- obovate. Color: outside-Tyrian Rose tip,

shading through Rose Red to Rose Color toward base. 'More Rose Color than Rose Red (Plate XII). InsideTyrian Rose tip, shading through Rose Red to Rose Color toward base (Plate XII) Opening.Bud opens up well.

Quantity of bloom: Abundant in greenhouse. Continuity: Continuous.

Fragrance: Penetrating.

Bloom:

Size, when fully opera-Large, 3 A; to 3 inches.

Petalage.Very double; from 64 to '77 petals,

arranged regularly.

Form.--Full high center at first and remaining so; petals remaining at first tightly rolled outward, and remaining at maturity tightly rolled outward.

Petals: Thick with inside and outside satiny.

Shape.-outsideobovate with long tapering base; scalloped with apex flat with variably one, two or three notches. Intermediate-obovate with long tapering base; scalloped with apex flat with variably one, two or three notches.

Inside-ob1anceo1ate; irregular with apex flat with variably one, two or three notches.

Colon-General color of bloomRose Color,

Plate XIII.

This description of a newly opened flower was made from a carnation grown in a greenhouse in January, 1941, at Lexington, Kentucky;

Color.0utside petal: outside surface-Rose Color, tip Tyrian Rose, Plate XII; inside surfaceRose Red, tip Tyrian Rose, Plate XII. Intermediate petal:0utside surfaceRose Color, tip Tyrian Rose, Plate XII; inside surface-Rose Red, tip Tyrian Rose, Plate IHI. Inner petal:outside surface-Rose Color; inside surface-Rose Color.

This description was made from a carnation that was open for three days in a. greenhouse in January, 1941, at Lexington, Kentucky:

Color.0utside petal:outside surface- Rose Color; inside surfaceRose Color, Inside petal :-outside surface-Rose Color; inside surface-Rose Color, General color efiectz-newly opened fiower--Rose Color, Plate XII; three days openRose Color, Plate XII. Behavior--persist. Flower longevity-cut flower grown in greenhouse kept at living room temperature, ten days.

Reproductive organs Stamens: Few, arranged irregularly about pistils.

Filaments:-Long; White; with anthers.

Anthers: Very small; open at various times;

Lemon Yellow.

Pollen: Very sparse; Yellow.

Pistils: Two.

Styles: Uneven; very long; heavy; separated.

CoZor.-Ca1liste Green and Peacock Green,

Plate VI. Seed: Many; medium size.

Plant Foliage: Leaves abundant; large; leathery; no

leaflets.

Color. Mature upper surface Dusky Yellowish Green, Plate'XLI; 'under surfaee,Dusky Olive Green, Plate XLI. Young -upper surface-Spinach Green, Plate V; under surfaceAsphodel Green, Plate XLI.

5 Disease-Resistant to rust and stem rot.

Growth:

Habit-Upright, vigorous. Growth-Vigorous. Canes.-Heavy. Main stems-Leaf Green, .Plate XLI. Branches.Lettuce Green, Plate V. New shoots.--Pa1e Cenclre Green, Plate VI.

I claim:

A new and distinct variety of carnation plant characterized as to novelty by its productive habit -of growth, prolificacy of large, full flowers, the

unusual rose color of said flowers, the absence of splittingof the calyx; the excellent production substantially as shown and described.

' OLLIE s. IV-IONA'KER.

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