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 Preamble. The new cultivar was developed by me through controlled breeding by crossing the unpatented cultivar 74-108-1 (Mikkelsen) (seed parent) with the unpatented cultivar 74-197-11 (Mikkelsen) (pollen parent). 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 cultivar from both its parent varieties and other cultivated Impatiens of this type known and used in the floriculture industry:

#1. There is considerable similarity in the foliage between Preamble and Paul Revere, also a new Impatiens cultivar of mine, with Paul Revere being disclosed and claimed in my finding application Ser. No. 764,525 filed Jan. 31, 1977. However, Preamble has narrower, longer, and more elliptical foliage than Paul Revere.

#The accompanying colored photograph illustrates the overall appearance of the new 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 in the greenhouses of Mikkelsens Inc., Ashtabula, Ohio, during early September, 1976. Color references are made to the Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart except where general terms of ordinary dictionary significance are used.

#Parentage: A controlled pollination of Mikkelsens seedling 74-108-1 as the seed parent crossed with Mikkelsens seedling 74-197-11 as the pollen parent.

#Propagation: