Double Impatiens plant named `Tioga White`

{
  "publication_number": "US10345P",
  "country": "US",
  "kind": "P",
  "title": "Double Impatiens plant named `Tioga White`",
  "abstract": "A distinctive cultivar of Double Impatiens plant named `Tioga White`, characterized by its large pure white flowers; flowers held above the foliage; consistently double and symmetrical flower form; numerous flowers per plant; freely branching plant habit; compact and mounted plant habit; and dark green foliage.",
  "claims": [
    "1. A new and distinct Double Impatiens plant named `Tioga White`, as illustrated and described."
  ],
  "description_excerpt": "The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Double Impatiens plant, botanically known as Impatiens walleriana, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name `Tioga White`. The new cultivar is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the inventors in Coquille, Ore. The objective of the breeding program was to develop varieties with attractive flower colors, consistently double flower form, uniform plant habit, and numerous flowers per plant. The new cultivar originated from a cross made by the inventors of an unnamed proprietary selection as the male or pollen parent with the proprietary selection H-55 as the female or seed parent. The cultivar `Tioga White` was discovered and selected by the inventors as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross in a controlled environment in Coquille, Ore. Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken at Coquille, Ore., has shown that the unique features of this new Double Impatiens are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations of asexual reproduction.\n\nThe following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of `Tioga White`. These characteristics in combination distinguish the new Double Impatiens as a new and distinct cultivar: 1. Large pure white flowers. 2. Flowers held above the foliage. 3. Consistently double and symmetrical flower form. 4. Numerous flowers per plant. 5. Freely branching plant habit. 6. Compact and mounded plant habit. 7. Dark green foliage.",
  "cpc": [
    "A01H 6/16",
    "A01H 5/02",
    "F16B 2200/67",
    "Y10T 403/5733",
    "Y10T 403/5741"
  ],
  "ipc": [
    "A01H 5/02"
  ],
  "inventors": [
    "COSNER HARLAN B",
    "COSNER SUE L"
  ],
  "filing_date": "1996-08-08",
  "publication_date": "1998-04-21",
  "priority_date": "1996-08-08",
  "application_number": "US-69416196-V",
  "family_id": "24787655"
}