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Aug. 4, 1942. J NICOLAS Plant Pat. 537

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Filed Dec. 18, 1941 v I 3 i m. 5 at Patented Aug. 4, 1942 Plant Pat. 537

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Jean H. Nicolas, deceased, late of Newark, N. Y.,

by Fannie Nicolas, administratrix, Newark, 1 N. Y., assignor to Jackson & Perkins Company,

Newark, N. Y.

Application December 18, 1941, Serial No. 423,558-

1 Claim.

The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of rose plant of the hybrid tea class, the. result of a definite effort to improve upon the parent varieties and others in the same class.

The new variety is distinctive in respect to a number of important characteristics, among which may be mentioned its vigorous, bushy, heavily-foliaged habit of growth, the very lightly serrated edges of its leaflets, the pointed form of bud, and high centered form of the flower in the unusual color combination thereof in the different stages of development of the blooms.

These features are more particularly pointed out in the following detail description of the new variety and accompanying illustration in color, color terminology being in accord with Ridgways Color Standard.

Parentage: Seedling.

Seed parent-Sunkist. Pollen parent.lympiad. Classification: Botanic and commercial-Hybrid tea.

Flower Observations made at Newark, New York, in the morning of September 9, 1941.

Blooming habit: Recurrent-Continuous. Bud: Size.Medium.

Form-Long. Is not affected by wet or hot weather.

Colon-When petals first divideOld Rose, Plate 13. When petals begin to unfurl- Begonia Rose, Plate 1, with a suffusion of Light Orange Yellow, Plate 3, about half way up from the base of the petal. When half blown: inside of petalsEo'sine Pink, Plate 1, with some indication of Rose Pink Plate 12; reverse of petalsbetween Deep Rose Pink, Plate 12, and Begonia Rose, Plate 1, with a suffusion of Orange Butt, Plate 3.

Sepals-Branched; Light Cress Green, Plate 31. Curl back when petals begin to unfurl.

Calyx.-Shapefunnel. Size-broad. As-

pect smooth. Color outside Light Cress Green, Plate 31; inside-Light Lumiere Green, Plate 17.

Peduncle. Length Medium. Aspect Prickly. Color-Cress Green, Plate 31. Strength-Erect; heavy.

Opening.-Bud opens well. Is not affected by adverse conditions.

Bloom:

Sim-Large. Average size when fully expanded-4 to 5 inches.

Borne-Several together,

Stems-Medium length; strong. Emma-When first open, high center. Per

manence-retains its form to the end. Petalage.--Double (full but open center).

Number of petals under normal conditions45.

Colon-Center of flowerEosine Pink, Plate 1. Outer petalsbetween Eosine Pink, Plate 1, and Hermosa Pink, Plate 1. Base of petals (aiglet)-Pale Lemon Yellow, Plate 4. Inside of petalsbetween Eosine Pink, Plate 1, and Rose Pink, Plate 12, in the upper two-thirds of the petal; lower one-third shows a diffusion of Picric Yellow, Plate 4. Reverse of petals-between- Eosine Pink, Plate 1, and Thulite Pink,

Stamens, anthers-Medium size; many; Deep Chrome, Plate 3; arrangementregular around styles.

Stamens, filaments (threads).Medium length; light cadmium, Plate 4. Pollen-Apricot Yellow, Plate 4. Styles.-Bunched; even length; medium size;

heavy.

Stigmma-Martius Yellow, Plate 4.

Ovaries-Some protruding from calyx.

Plant Wood:

' New wo d.-Courge Green, Plate 1'7, over- Form: Bush. laid with Vandyke Red, Plate 13. Bark- Growth: Very vigorous; upright. rough. Foliage: Five to seven leaflets. 5 Old wood.-Cress Green, Plate 31. Bark- Size.-Medium. rough Quantity Abundam-h Thorns: (Thorns are divided into th'orns, prickles, Colon-New foliage: upper side-Vandyke and short need1es:)

Red, Plate 13; mid-rib-Light Hellebore mam stalks from Green, Plate 17; under side-Vandyke Red, baseordmary' on laterals f.rom Stalk- Plate 13. Old foliage: upper side-Cress FTm fiat base; medlum length; Green, Plate 31; under side-Light Cress hooked doWnWaId- (70101 when young- Acajou Red, Plate 3. Positionirregu1ar.

Green Plate PrickZes.-Quantity on main stalks and on Shape-.-Oval pointed.

a laterals-none. TeatuTe" 'Upper S1de1eat1,1ery' ,Under Short Needles.-Quantity on main stalks and side-rough. Rzbs and vems-ord1nary. on laterals nine Edge.Serrated (saw toothed). Serration.-Single; small. W 15 clalmed A newend distinct variety of rose plant, chariggi fig g Green Plate Undel 2o acterized as to novelty by its vigorous, bushy, Z M 1 htl b d d heavily-foliaged habit of growth and the form mm eng 5 1g e of its leaflets, buds and high centered flowers, Dwease TesZstance'Res1Stantj as mama/Bed combined with the unusual coloring of the blooms by the fact that plants of this variety have in e different Stages of development,

been grown in test gardens where they are stantiauy as shown and described exposed to the normal ills of such environ- FANNIE NICOLAS ment and failed to acquire any of the d i i tratria: of the Estate of Jean H. Nicolas, common dlseases. Deceased,

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