Dogwood tree- `Rutlan`

Abstract

An F1 hybrid of Cornus kousa Hance and C. florida L. providing a new large-bracted dogwood, which is an exceptionally vigorous, highly floriferous, small, flowering tree, more nearly like C. florida, being full and spreading in habit rather than vase-shaped as in C. kousa, yet considerably larger as compared with C. florida, and having a period of floral display that is intermediate to that of the parental species.

I claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct cultivar of dogwood tree, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of its exceptionally high vigor and highly floriferous small flowering form, similar to its pollen parent as to its dense, spreading form but becoming much taller with age, intermediate to the two parents as to characteristics of the overwintering flower buds, time of flowering, and size of floral bracts, and exhibiting resistance to dogwood borers and "dogwood decline."