Carnation named Renegade

#This new variety of red carnation plant originated as a sport of a Crowley Sim plant grown in my greenhouse at Arvada, Colo., and was discovered by me in March, 1969. Because of its strong and distinctive color, I selected this sport for reproduction, which was done by me by means of cuttings. The resulting plant proved to retain the advantageous characteristics of its parent plant variety as well as the flower form and color of the original sport and asexual propagation of this new plant through many generations at Denver, Colo., has demonstrated that its novel and advantageous characteristics hold true from generation to generation and are firmly fixed. Propagation of this new plant by cuttings is now being done on a commercial scale at Denver, Colo.

#My new variety of carnation plant is illustrated by the accompanying photographic drawing which shows, in full color, a partially opened bud, a half opened flower, and a fully opened bloom, the flower color being as nearly true as it is reasonably possible to be had by conventional professional photographic procedures.

#The following is a detailed description of my new carnation plant variety based upon observations of greenhouse plants grown under conventional greenhouse practices at Denver, Colo., these observations having been made during the Summer of 1976. The color designations stated are according to the R.H.S. Colour Chart published by The Royal Horticultural Society of London, England.

#Origin: Sport.

#Parentage: A Crowley Sim (unpatented) of a light pink (RHS 36D) color grown in greenhouse for cut flower production.