USPP871P - Chrysanthemum plant - Google Patents

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Sept. 6, 1949. E. PRUSHEK Plant Pat 871 CHRYSANTHEMUM PLANT Filed Nov. 28, 1947 Patented Sept. 6, 1949 Plant Pat. 871

CHRYSANTHEMUM PLANT Emil Prushek, Niles, Mich., assignor to The R. M.

Kellogg Company, Three Rivers, Mich, a corporation of Michigan Application November 28, 1947, Serial No. 788,743

1 Claim. 1

My present invention comprises a new and distinct variety of chrysanthemum plant, the result of crossing the variety Princess" of Plant Patent No. 711, and an unnamed chrysanthemum seedling.

The objects of my invention, in general, were to produce a new variety of chrysanthemum having the dwarf, compact, and fioriferous characteristics of the bush or plant form similar to those of the variety Princess, but having blossoms whose general color efiect was a near approach to pink; and to produce such a new variety having a high degree of frost resistance in the petals to withstand early frost.

I have conducted a program of careful selection and crossbreeding for the purposes of accomplishing the objects just mentioned, and as a part of a broader program of selection and crossbreeding which I have been conducting for some time with a view to producing new varieties of chrysanthemums having the dwarf and compact habits of growth above mentioned in varieties of different desired colors in reference to the blooms of such plants.

Now the result of the specific hybridization above mentioned has been to produce my present new and distinct variety of chrysanthemum characterized by its dwarf and compact habits of growth, its early flowering, its long season due to the long color life of individual blooms, its resistance to frost, and the purple color of its blooms.

More specifically, theblooms of my new variety are Magnolia Purple in color. In dimensions, the plants of my new variety have an average height of 9" and an average diameter of 15", in reference to first year plants from soft top cuttings under uniform culture in the region of Berrien County, Michigan.

The plants of my new variety of ohrysanthemum are very dwarf and compact, resembling very closely in form and habit of growth the parent variety Princess.

While my new variety is similar to its parent Princess in reference to habit of growth and the form of the plant, my new variety differs from both of its parents in reference to the color of its bloom, the parent variety "Princess" having sunset colored blooms and the unnamed seedling parent having white blooms, while the blooms of my new variety are Magnolia Purple in color.

The plants of my new variety have a high degree of frost resistance, such that the petals of the blooms withstand the early frost. In the breeding work preceding the specific cross by which my new variety was obtained as above described, the highly frost-resistant variety Jewell" was used twice for the purpose of procuring frost resistance in my new variety. Plants of my new variety successfully withstand temperatures down to 28 F. with ice formation, and under such conditions there was no damage to open flowers.

Of the older chrysanthemum varieties, my new variety most nearly resembles Major Cushion. However, my new variety is ten days earlier in flowering than Major Cushion. The pompom blooms of my new variety have better substance and more orderly shape and arrangement of petals than Major Cushion, and the color of the blooms of my new variety, being Magnolia Purple, differs from the color of the blooms of "Major Cushion, which is Lilac Purple. Major Cushion" makes a larger plant having dimensions of M" average height and 20" average diameter, as compared with the smaller dimensions in reference to my new variety of plant above mentioned. Thus my new variety has about onefourth of the size or mass of the similar Major Cushion.

My new variety is early flowering, has a long blooming season, and the blooms have long lastin g color life, being similar in these characteristics, to the present variety Princess of Plant Patent 711.

My new variety has been found to retain its distinctive characteristics through successive asexual reproduction.

The accompanying drawing forming a part hereof shows a spray of typical blossoms of my new variety.

The following is a detail description of my new variety, all color references being to the Horticultural Colour Chart of the British Colour Council, observations being made on plants grown in Berrian County, Michigan.

Classification: Botanic-Chrysanthemum hortorum.

Flower Blooming habit: Blooms early; profusely. Re-

current-continuous in the fall. Bud:

Size.Small. Form-Short with fiat top; globular.

Not affected by wet weather. Not affected by hot weather. Color.-When sepals first divide-Magnolia Purple 030/2. When petals begin to unfurl-Magnolia Purple 030. When half blown: inside of petals-Magnolia Purple 030; reverse of petalsMa-gnolia Purple 030/2.

Sepals.-Smooth edge; stand up.

Calya:.-Shapeapple; size-broad;

aspect-smooth.

PeduncZe.-Bud opens well; not affected by adverse conditions.

Bloom:

Size-Small; average size when fully expanded, 1

Borne.-Singly.

Stems.Medium; normal.

Form.When first openfiat'. Permanence retains its form to the end.

Petalage.--Very double. Number of petals under normal conditions, 20B- Color.--Center of flower-Magnolia. Purple 030/1. Outer petals-Magnolia Purple 030/2. Base of petals (singlet) Primrose Yellow 60 1/ 1. Inside of petals=-Magnolla Purple 030/1. Reverse of petals--Magnolia Purple 030/3; General tonality from a; distance=-Magnolia Purple 030/1 and 030/2, halfway between.

DiscOIoratiom-First week--no change. Second weeka pleasant fading toward white (Magnolia Purple (130/3). lll iird weeksame as above.

Petals:

Textm'eL- I'hin; soft. Slight fading from wet weather. Not affectedby hot weather.

Appearance-.Velvetyinside and outside:

Form-Oval; notched;

AfrangemenL-Imbricated Fragrance.-Characteristlc chrysanthemimr.

Eastingness.0n the plant'very long. As

cut flower--very long.

small;

4 Genital organs:

Stamens, anthers.-Small; few. Color--ye1 low.

Stamens, filaments.-Short. Color-lemon yellow.

PoZlen.-Go1d yellow.

StyZes.-Colurnnar; medium; thin.

Stigma-Yellow.

Plant F0rm.-Bush.

Growth.-Medium; dwarf; compact.

Foliage:

Sizer-Small.

Quantity=.- Normal.

Colon-4119p sidenormal green; under side-light green. Old f0liageupper side "-daLilt green under sidenormal green.

Shame.-Oval pointed; acutely lobed.

Tewture.-Upper side-velvety; flat; under sidevelvety. Ribs and.veins-light.

Edam-Serrated.

Serrat'ion.Double.

Lea] stem.-Colorgreen.

smooth.

Stipules.-None.

Wood:

New wood.-Color, reddish.

Color brown.

Lelaim:

A- new and distinct variety of crysanthemum plant characterized. as to novelty by its dwarf. compact growth, its early flowering. its long blooming season, the long color life of its blooms, its resistance to frost.. and the Purple color of its flowers, substantially as described and illustrated.

Under side- Old 1000i:-

EMIL PRUSI-IEK.-

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