USPP2576P - Rose plant - Google Patents

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Nov. 23, 1965 E. e. FISHER Plant Pat. 2,576

ROSE PLANT Filed Sept. 29, 1964 Ivan, Am. M m

fiTTOR/YEKS United States Patent M 2,576 ROSE PLANT Esther Gladys Fisher, Wohurn, Mass., assignor to The Cunard-Pyle Company, West Grove, Pa., a corporation of Pennsylvania Filed Sept. 29, 1964, Ser. No. 400,277 1 Claim. (Cl. Plt.24)

This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of rose plant of the floribunda class which was originated by me by crossing Golden Anniversary (Plant Patent No. 806) with Masquerade (Plant Patent No. 975).

The primary objective of this breeding was to create a distinct variety of rose difierent from all other known varieties of roses in several important characteristics.

This new variety is distinct from all varieties of roses of which I am aware in the following combination of characteristics:

(1) A plant of good vigor and balanced habit.

(2) Flowers which at certain times of the year can be extraordinarily large for a plant of the fioribunda class.

(3) An unusually good continuity of bloom.

(4) A petal count of from 40 to 45.

(5) The color of the flowers which varies from Mimosa Yellow in newly opened blooms to Barium Yellow at maturity.

Asexual reproduction of my new variety by budding was performed in West Grove, Pennsylvania, and shows that the above-mentioned characteristics and distinctions come true to form and are established and transmitted through succeeding propagation.

The accompanying drawing shows typical specimens of the flowers and foliage of my new variety in different steps of development and as depicted in color as nearly true as is reasonably possible to make the same in a color illustration of this character.

The following is a detailed description of my new variety with color terminology in accordance with the color chart of the Royal Horticultural Society:

Type: Hardy; bush, outdoor; seedling; for garden decoration.

Class: Floribunda.

Propagation: It does hold its distinguishing characteristics through succeeding propagations by budding.

The flower Locality where grown: West Grove, Pennsylvania. Flowers borne: Several to stem; in irregular cluster; on

normal medium stems. Quantity of bloom: Abundant, outdoors. Continuity: Continuous. Fragrance: Slight; sweetbriar. Bud:

Peduncle.Medium length, medium size; erect; me-

dium green; rough; numerous; glandular hairs; red. Before calyx breaks.SiZemedium. F ormpointed ovoid with a conspicuous neck; with foliaceous appendages on the surface of the bud; with bristlelike foliaceous parts extending beyond the tip of the bud equal to or more of its length. As calyx breaks.-Color-P0d Green 061 overlaid with Claret Rose 021/1. As first petal opens.SiZe-medium. Formmedium-pointed, ovoid. Color: outsideAureolin 3 over lower half of petal grading to Aureolin 3/ 3 at apical margin, usually irregularly marked with Erythrite Red 0027/2; insideLemon Yellow 4 at base becoming progressively paler towards upper margin where dominant color is Naples Yellow 403/3. 0pening.lt does open up well.

Plant Pat. 2,576 Patented Nov. 23, 1965 Bloom:

Size when fully open.Large, 4 /2 inches to 4% inches.

Petalage.Double; from 40 to 45 petals; arranged regularly.

Form.-High-centered at first; becoming cupped; petals remaining at first loosely rolled outward; becoming later at maturity loosely r-olled outward.

Petals: Medium soft; with inside satiny; outside shiny.

Shape.Outer-obovate; no notches. Intermediate-obovate; no notches. Innerundulate; irregular; no notches.

This description of a newly opened flower was made from a rose grown outdoors in October 1963, at West Grove, Pennsylvania.

C0lor.-Outer petal: outside surfaceBarium Yellow 503 at base of petal becoming progressively paler with upper half of petal Primrose Yellow 601/3; inside surfacebase of petal Aureolin 3 becoming progressively lighter towards the outer margin of the petal the color of which is Mimosa Yellow 602/1. Intermediate petal: outside surfacebase of petal Barium Yellow 503 changing to Barium Yellow 503/ l which is the dominant color over the remainder of the petal; inside surfacebase of petal Aureolin 3 becoming progressively lighter towards the outer margin the color of which is Mimosa Yellow 602/ 1. Inner petal: outside surfacebase of petal Barium Yellow 503 gradually changing to Barium Yellow 503/1 over the upper half of the petal; inside surfacebase of petal Aureolin 3 gradually changing to Mimosa Yellow 602/1 at the outer margin.

This description was made from a rose that was open for three days outdoors, in October 1963, at West Grove, Pennsylvania.

Colon-Outer petal: outside surface-Barium Yellow 503 covering lower half of petal then changing to Canary Yellow 2/3 over upper half of petal; inside surfaceAureolin 3/1 at base of petal changing to Aureolin 3/2 and to Canary Yellow 2/ 3 covering the upper quarter of the petal. Inner petal: outside surfaceBarium Yellow 503 at base becoming Barium Yellow 503/1 over remaining /5 of petal; inside surfaceAureolin 3 at base of petal becoming progressively lighter and changing to Barium Yellow 503 at outer margin of petal.

General color efiect.Newly opened flowerMimosa Yellow 602/ 1. Three days openBarium Yellow 503/1.

Behavi0r.-Drop oif cleanly.

Flower longevity.0n bush in garden 4 days in October; cut roses grown outdoors kept at living room temperatures 4 days in October.

Reproductive organs Stamens: Many; arranged irregularly about pistils mixed with petaloids.

Filaments: Many; most with anthers; medium length.

Color-Lemon Yellow 4.

Anthers: Open at various times; medium length. Color yellow (general color elfect). Occasionally an anther fused with a petaloid.

Pollen: Abundant; gold.

Pistils: Medium number.

Styles: Uneven; medium to long; medium size; bunched.

Stigma: Yellow.

Ovaries: Some protruding from receptacle.

Hips: None observed.

3 4 Sepals: Permanent; moderately long; straight spear Canes.Medium.

shaped. Main stems.Dull. Color-Parsley Green 00962/ 2. Seeds: None observed. Pricklesseveral; colorbrown (general color Plant term). Hairs-none. Foliage: 5 Branches.Dull. Color-Parsley Green 00962/2.

Leaves-Compound of 3, but usually 5 leaflets; nor- Prickles-several; color-reddish (general color mal quantity; medium size; leathery. term). Hairs-none.

Leaflets.Shapeoval with apex acute; base obtuse; New sh00ts.-Dull. Color-Fern Green 0862/ 1.

margin simply serrate. Color: mature-upper Pricklesseveral; colorreddish base with greensurface-Ivy Green 0001060/2; undersurface- 1O ish yellow tips (general color terms). Hairs Willow Green 000862/ 1; youngupper surfacenone.

Spinach Green 0960/2 overlaid with Oxblood Red 00823; undersurfaceFern Green 0862/ 2 overlaid with Oxblood Red 00823/3.

Rachis (the supporting stem of the compound leaf). 15

Medium size. Upper side-grooved hairy. Under side-sparsley prickly.

Stipules.Moderately long; moderately narrow; with medium points; turning out at an angle of more I claim:

A new and distinct variety of floribunda rose plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its good vigor and balanced habit, its good continuity of bloom, its flowers of extraordinarily large size during certain times of the year for a plant of the floribunda class, with a petal count of from 4-0 to 45, and the color of its blooms varying from Mimosa Yellow in newly than 45 20 Disease.-Resistance comparable to the average va- Opened blooms to Banum Yellow at matunty' riety growing under the same cultural conditions. No references cited Growth:

Habit-431181131, much branched- ABRAHAM G. STONE, Primary Examiner. Growth.Vigorous. 25

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