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Dec. 20, 1949. 5, ARMSTRONG Plant Pat. 907

CAMELLIA PLANT Filed Jan. 11, 1949 Patented Dec. 20, 1949 Plant Pat. 907

CAMELLIA PLANT John S. Armstrong, Ontario, Calif., assignor to Armstrong Nurseries, Inc., Ontario, Calif., a corporation of California Application January 11, 1949, Serial No. 70,291

1 Claim. 1

The present invention or discovery relates to a new and distinct variety of camellia plant, a seedling originated by a selection from a mixed lot of seedlings obtained by harvesting and growing seed from selected seed parents.

This new variety is characterized by a combination of novel characters best enumerated as follows:

(1) A plant bushy, upright, much branched in habit, abundantly furnished with dark green (substantially as described and illustrated) leaves of medium to large size and with a leathery, glossy upper surface texture making an attractive plant and abountiful framework for the production of flowers.

(2) Flowers of a pleasing pink shadeclassified as to form as complete double, incomplete imbricated (American Camellia Society classification) with a graceful opening habit contributed to principally by the slight and gradual recurving of the petal tip, giving the flower a full highcentered appearance during the slow opening process.

(3) A seaTson of bloom from January to March (in Southern California) during which, to the best of my knowledge, no other camellia variety of this color and form-type blooms.

i) A flower medium in size and persistent to the stem, making it particularly suitable for use as a corsage flower.

Asexual reproduction of this new variety shows the foregoing characteristics come true to form and are established.

In the accompanying original drawing are illustrated specimens of the flower of this new variety in substantially full size and from closed bud to fully open flower with a background grouping of the foliage, showing its characters as nearly as possible true to shape, form, and color.

The following is a detailed description of the new variety, color terminology being in accordance with R. F. Wilsons Horticultural Colour Chart with exceptions noted from Ridgways Color Standards and Nomenclature:

Type: Half hardy evergreen shrub for out flowers and garden decoration.

Class: Hybrid seedling variety of Camellia yapom'ca.

Propagation: Holds its distinguishing characteristics through succeeding propagations by cuttings and grafting.

Flower Locality where grown: Ontario, California.

Flowers borne: singly, sometimes two, axillary and terminal.

Quantity of bloom: Free, outdoors.

Continuity: Gne season, usually from January to March.

Fragrance: None.

Bud: Sessile.

Before calyx breaks.-Si2emedium. Form-long, pointed, with tomentum on the surface of the bud. Sepalsimbricated, very broadly ovate in outline but strongly cupped about bud with sharp apical point, lower sepals becoming almost scale-like, and upper sepals becoming scarious when flower fully opens. Color- Biscay Green, Plate XVII (Ridgway), becoming Absinthe Green, Plate XXXI (Ridgway), at apex of bud, occasionally having a line margin of Roods Brown, Plate XXVIII (Ridgway).

As first petal opens.-Sieemedium. Form flat at tip, but globular in general outline. Color--outside: Crimson, Plate 22/1, page 22; inside: Crimson, Plate 22/1, page 22. Openingopens up well.

Bloom:

Siee.Medium; 8 to 9 cm. in diameter.

Petalage.-Very double; 38 to 44 petals arranged regularly with a tuft of 25 to petaloids in center.

F0rm.Complete double, incomplete imbricated; full high center; petals loosely rolled inward forming a broad U with slight and gradual recurving from center of petal to apex. (Classification as used by American Camellia Society.)

Petals: Moderately thick with inside satiny and outside somewhat shiny.

Shape-Outside-obovate, with 1 to 2 notches. Intermediate-obovate, with 1 to 2 notches. Inside-oval, with 1 to 2 notches.

CoZor.-Co1ors may be modified by being margined, shaded, washed, or tinted with other colors.

3 This description of a newly opened flower was made from a camellia grown outdoors in the month of February, at Ontario, California:

Colon-Outside petaloutside surface: Neyron Rose, Plate 623, page 76, with margin of Neyron Rose, Plate 623/1, page 76; inside surface: Neyron Rose, Plate 623, page 76, with margin of Neyron Rose, Plate 623/1, page 76. Intermediate petaZ-outside surface: Neyron Rose, Plate 623/1, page 76, with narrow margin of Neyron Rose, Plate 623/2, page 76; inside surface: Neyron Rose, Plate 623/1, page 76, with narrow margin of Neyron Rose, Plate 623/2, page 76. Inner petaZ-outside surface: Neyron Rose, Plate 623/1, page 76, with narrow margin of Neyron Rose, Plate 623/2, page 76; inside surface: Neyron Rose, Plate 623/1, page 76, with narrow margin of Neyron Rose, Plate 623/2, page 76.

General color efiect.--Newly opened flower- Neyron Rose, Plate 623/1, page 76.

Behaoior.--Persistent, holding on plant until flower becomes old.

Flower Zongevity.Cut flowers grown outdoors kept at living-room temperatures, 6 days in February.

Reproductive organs Stamens: Usually none.

Plant Foliage: Leaves alternate, simple, abundant; me-

dium to large; leathery; glossy above, semiglossy beneath.

Sizeto 7 cm. wide and 7 to 11 cm. long. Shape.Ovate-lanceolate, with apex acumicor nate; base obtuse to acute, occasionally rounded; margin simply shallow serrate.

Midrib.-Prominent, raised on upper and under surface of leaf.

Veins.--Pinnate, raised slightly on upper and under surface of leaf, but not prominent.

Petiole.lviedium length; 6 to 9 mm. long.

Colon-11! attire-upper surface: near Yew Green, Plate XXXI (Ridgway) under surface: between Rainette Green, Plate XXXI (Ridgway), and Light Cress Green, Plate Xml (Ridgway). Young-upper surface: near Calla Green, Plate V (Ridgway) under surface: near Lettuce Green, Plate V (Ridgway).

Growth:

Habit.l3ushy; upright; much branched.

Growth.--Moderately heavy; vigorous.

Main stems.-Colornear Vandyke Brown, Plate XXVIII (Ridgway), becoming scurfy when several years old.

Branches.Color-Sayal Brown, Plate XXIX (Ridgway), shaded with Saccardos Umber, Plate XXIX (Ridgway).

New shoots.-Colornear Lettuce Green,

Plate V (Ridgway).

I claim:

A new and distinct variety of camellia plant characterized as to novelty by its bushy, upright, much branched habit of growth; abundance of dark green, medium sized foliage with leathery, glossy upper surface texture; by the flowers of pink shade, complete double, incomplete imbricated type with graceful opening habit and having the appearance, due to its slow opening process, of a full high-centered bloom; by its season of bloom and by the medium size flower, persistent to stem making it particularly suitable for use as a corsage flower, substantially as shown and 49 described.

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