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June 20, 1933. F, H HOWARD Plant Pat. 67

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Patented June 20, 1933 .UNITED STATES Plant Pat. 67

- PATENT OFFICE FRED H. HOWARD, OF MONTEBELLO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO MINNIE JONES HOWARD, OF MONTEBELLO, CALIFORNIA HYBRID TEA ROSE Application filed September 22, 1932. Serial No. 634,428.

My present invention relates to improvements in fragrant red hybrid tea roses. The objects of my improvements are, briefly stated, to provide a rose of the type mentioned having flowers of a new and distinctive shade of color, large, faultless and camellialike form, having superior producing and keeping qualities and other desirable characters.

This new rose is the result of definite breeding efforts carried 011 by myself and my associates at Montebello, California, and originated from a cross between the well-known variety Premier Supreme and the variety known as McGredys Scarlet, the first named being the seed parent and the second the pollen parent.

The accompanying illustrations show in full color two tight buds and three flowers in various stages of maturity, also stems and foliage, all depicted as nearly as possible in their two forms and colors.

The following is a detailed description of this rose plant and flower: v

The bush or pZant.Under ordinary good greenhouse conditions grows 4% to feet high. It is a vigorous grower and is exceedingly productive. Plants grown under greenhouse forcing conditions, benched by 15", produce ordinarily to salable flowers each, and often as high as salable flowers are taken from a single plant in a year. This variety produces little blind wood and when pinched off the branch breaks free- Stems.Stoutish, green, beset with small spines for the first 6 to 8 inches below blossom, and below first leaf branch has distinct but not numerous pinkish thorns set perpendicular to the stem.

Leaf branches.-On flower-bearing stems 4 to 5 inches long, ordinarily having 5 leaflets except on first branch below the blossom which has 3 leaflets. There is generally a rudimentary leaf from A; to 1 A, inches long above the first leaf branch. The leaflets are of approximately forest green color (Plate XVII Ridgeways Color Standard and Nomenclature), only slightly glabrous, ovate, and the edges are cut by sharp-pointed, deep but rather small notches or serrations. The central stem or petiole from which the leaflets spring bears one to four spines or small thorns pointing downward.

P -Quite small and narrow, with slender pointed but non-curled tips.

-H2'ps. inch long, wide and tapering. Buds.Relatively short for their width,

those measuring 1 inch long having a width at the base of about inch. Buds are ordi- CO slightly branched and foliaceous and reach a length of 1 inches. In the main, however,

the sepals are rather narrow and either smooth and regular along their edges or with but a single pair of small ofi'shooting points.

BZOss0ms.--Are very large, ordinarlly being 3 to 4 inches across the top when grown in greenhouses in the vicinity of Philadelphia in the month of March, as shown in the accompanying illustrations. Under some conditions, however, the blossoms attain a diameter of 5 to 6 inches. The form may be described as perfect in that the petal arrangement of a normal blossom is very regular and gives an effect referred to as camellie-like.

The flower is decidedly double, having in the month of March in the latitude of Philadelphia, in a typical specimen, 50 large petals, 30 medium sized petals, 25 small petals and a dozen or more rudimentary petals. The flower also contains a large number of yellow anthers mounted on white stamens, and a large number of white or pinkish pistils.

The color of this rose varies somewhat as between specimens and with the degree of maturity. It is a color not found in any other variety of rose known to the originator. The color shade of the opening bud is darker than that of the more mature flower, and there is no color shade in Rid eways Color Standard and Nomenclature t at properly indicates this shade. The nearest approach is Tyrian rose shown on PlateXII. But the newl opening bud is darker than Tyrian rose an moreover, has a velvety surface that reflects the light in a variety of shades when viewed from different angles. As the flower matures and opens the predominating color shade becomes lighter. This shade is ap roximate- 1y rose color (Plate XII, of idgeways Color Standard and Nomenclature). However the outer two or three rows of petals retain their darker shade. In practically all cases the inside surface of the petals is darker than the outside.- The central petals all have a fine edging of lighter shade. The veining is scarcely visible.

A distinctive character is found in the fact that each petal in the outer row of 5 or 6 petals has a white streak down its centervisible on the inside only. The other petals do not have this streak effect until the center of the flower is approached, where a dozen or more of the medium-sized petals may have this same effect.

The flower is intensely fragrant and has extraordinary keeping qualities; When out as an opening bud and kept in water, the flower will last fully ten days.

What I claim as new is:

The variety of hybrid tea rose herein shown and described, characterized particularly by its vigorous growth and exceptional producing powers, and its fragrant blossoms of large size, camellia-like form, and distinctive shades of intense red color.

In testimony whereof I aflix m signature.

FRED H. H WARD.

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