USPP595P - Rose plant - Google Patents

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July 13, 1943.

ROSE PLANT Filed Jan. 19, 1943 Patented July 13, 1943 Plant Pat. 595

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ROSE PLANT Charles Mallerin, Varces, France, assignor to The Cunard-Pyle Company, West Grove, Pa.

Application January 19, 1943, Serial No. 472,890

. 1 Claim.

The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of hybrid tea rose plants, repretures, mark this new variety as outstanding among any varieties now grown.

The following is a detail description of this new rose, color terminology having reference to Ridgways Color Standard:

Type: Hardy; tall; bush; outdoor; seedling; for

cut flowers and garden decoration.

Class: Hybrid tea.

Parentage: Seedling.

Seed parent-Scum de Melanie Soupert.

Pollen parent.-Nonin.

Propagation: Holds its distinguishing characteristics through succeeding propagations by budding, which i the only method employed up to the present time.

Flower Locality where grown: West Grove, Pennsylvania.

Flowers borne: Singly and several to stem; on

normal, medium long stems.

Quantity of bloom: Free; outdoors.

Continuity: Intermittent.

Fragance: Moderate; tea.

Bud:

PedancZe.Medium long; medium heavy;

erect; stiff; Rainette, Plate XXXI; numerous hairs, Garnet-Brown, Plate I.

Before calyx breaks.--Sizemedium. Form-ovoid with an inconspicuous neck; with foliaceous appendages on the surface of the bud; with bristle-like foliaceous parts extending beyond the tip of the bud equal to one-half or more of its length.

As calya: breaks.Lemon-Chrome, Plate IV,

marked Nopal Red, Plate I.

As first petal opens.Sizemedium. Formovoid. Coloroutside: Lemon-Chrome, Plate IV, shading upward to Pinard Yellow, Plate IV, at edge; insideLemon- Chrome, Plate IV, shading upward to Pinard Yellow, Plate IV, at edge.

Opening.0pens up Well. Bloom:

Size-When fully open, four inches to four and one-half inches.

Petalaye.-Double (but the stamens not hidden); from twenty to twenty-five petals; arranged regularly.

Form.Cupped; high center at first; becoming cupped; petal remaining at first loosely cupped rolled outward; becoming later, at maturity, very loosely rolled outward.

Petals: Thick; soft; with inside and outside satiny.

' Shape.-Oatside--obovate, with apex flat with one notch. Intermediateobovate, with apex flat with one notch. Inside obovate, with apex flat with one notch.

This description of a newly opened flower was made from a rose grown outdoors, in the month of August, 1941, at West Grove, Pennsylvania:

CoZor.Outside petal: outside surface-- Lemon-Chrome, Plate IV, shading to Baryta Yellow, Plate IV, at edge; inside surface-Lemon-Chrome, Plate IV, shading to Baryta Yellow, Plate IV, at edge. Inter mediate petal: outside surface-Lemon- Chrome, Plate IV, shading to Baryta Yellow; Plate IV, at edge; insid surface- Lemon-Chrome, Plate IV, shading to Baryta Yellow, Plate IV, at edge. Inner petal: outside surface--Lemon-Chrome, Plate IV, shading to Baryta Yellow, Plate IV, at edge; inside surface-Lemon- Chrome, Plate IV, shading to Baryta Yellow, Plat IV, at edge.

This description was made from a rose that was open for three days in the month of August, 1941, at West Grove, Pennsylvania:

CoZor.Outside petal: outside surface- Pinard-Yellow, Plate IV; inside surface Pinard-Yellow, Plate IV. Inside petal: outside surface--Pinard-Yellow, Plate IV; inside surfacePinard-Yellow, Plate IV.

General color efiect.Newly opened flower- Lemon-Chrome, Plate IV; three days open --Pinard-Yellow, Plate IV.

Behavior.-Drop off cleanly; fading Baryta- Yellow, Plate IV.

Flower longevity.-n bush in garden-two to three days in August. As out roses grown outdoors-three to five days in August.

Reproductive organs Hips: Short; fiat; with inconspicuous neck: Oil

Green, Plate V; smooth; walls thin.

Sepals: Permanent; moderately long; recurved.

Seeds: Very few; small.

Plant Foliage:

Lemma-Compound of three to sevenleaflets; normal; moderately large; heavy; leathery. Leaflets.-Ovoid; with apexr'n'ucronate; base obtuse; margin simply serrate. Colon-Mature: upper Green, Plate IV. Young: upper surface- Oil Green, Plat V, suffused Garnet' Brown, Plate I; under surface--Garnet-Brown, Plate I, suffused Oil Green, Plate V.

15 none. H airs-none.

surfaoeCedar 3 Green, Plate VI; under surface-Parrot Rachis.Medium heavy. Upper sideprickly; under sidethorny. Stipules.Moderately long; moderately narrow; with moderately long points turning 5 out at an angle of more than 45, recurved toward the stem. Disease.-Resistant to mildew and blackspot. Growth:

Habit.--Bushy; upright; much branched. Growthr-Vigorous.

Canes-Medium heavy. 7 Main stems.-Dull Olive-Green, Plate IV. Thornsseveral; v short; hooked downward; with long narrow base. Prickles- Branches.Dull Cerro-Green, Plate V. Th0rnsseveral; medium long; hooked downward; with narrow base. Pricklesnone. 'Hairs-none.

New shoots.-Bright Cerro-Green, Plate V,

suffused Morocco Red, Plate I. Thornsseveral; medium long; hooked downward; with long narrow base. Pricklesnone.

Hai1's--none.

'1 claim:

A'new and distinct variety of rose plant, characterized as to novelty by general habits of growth, hardiness, color and form of flowers throughout their different stages of development,

0 and color combination of foliage, substantially as shown and described.

CHARLES MALLERIN.

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