Rose plant

Abstract

A new variety of rose plant of the hybrid Floribunda class, being a hardy outdoor seedling of the bush type, well adapted for mass display because its blooms are abundant, most of them being carried in clusters of as many as five or more to a stem. Flowers are from 21/2 to 31/2 inches across, and have from 32 to 40 petals and from 0 to 5 petaloids. The flower coloration is a distinctive purple-red as hereinafter described in detail.

I claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct variety of Floribunda rose plant, substantially as herein shown and described, and being especially characterized in the distinctive purple-red coloration of its blooms, and in the abundance of its dark green glossy foliage, which covers the plant during the growing season.