Impatiens plant

#The present invention relates to a new and distinctive cultivar of Impatiens plant, botanically known as Impatiens, and known by the cultivar name Betsy Ross. The new cultivar was developed by me through controlled breeding by crossing the unpatented cultivar Cheers (seed parent), a cultivar of the U.S. Department of Agriculture with unpatented cultivar number 74-92-13 (pollen parent), a seedling of James C. Mikkelsen. Asexual reproduction of terminal or stem cuttings has shown that the unique features of this new Impatiens are stabilized and are reproduced true to type in successive propagations.

#The following characteristics distinguish the new Impatiens from both its parent varieties and other cultivated Impatiens of this type known and used in the floriculture industry:

#1. A short compact plant with very close internodes compared with the seed parent Cheers.

#The accompanying colored photograph illustrates the overall appearance of this cultivar, and shows the colors as true as it is reasonably possible to obtain in a colored reproduction of this type.

#The following is a detailed description of my new Impatiens cultivar based on plants produced under commercial practices at the greenhouses of Mikkelsens, Inc., at Ashtabula, Ohio. Color references are made to the Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart except where general terms of ordinary dictionary significances are used.

#Parentage: A controlled cross of the cultivar Cheers as the seed parent pollinated with Mikkelsen seedling number 74-92-13.

#Propagation: By tip cuttings.