Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Elwin R Orton, Jr

David A Gant

The plant hereof is notable for its dark red floral bracts and rather small compact form of tree characterized by branching of a densely profuse form being more dense than other clones of C. florida.

Dogwood tree -- named `D-376-15`

The outstanding characteristics of the cultivar hereof comprise the white bracted display over a period of time typical of most plants of C. florida, an important distinguishing element of this new hybrid comprising the fruit which are bright red and much larger than the fruit typical for C. florida being nearly tubular or almost uniformly cylindrical in shape, the volume of the fruit being substantially greater than the volume of fruit of other cultivars, the vegetative and floral parts being winter-hardy in the region of New Brunswick, N.J.

Dogwood tree named `D-184-11`

An F.sub.1 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.

Dogwood tree- `Rutlan`

An interspecific hybrid of C. kousa and C. florida, being white-bracted and very floriferous, the floral display from May 17 to June 1 being intermediate to that of plants of C. florida and C. kousa and also exhibiting an upright habit typical of plants of C. kousa but more vigorous, the size at maturity usually being larger.

Dogwood tree `Constellation`

A hybrid of Cornus kousa Hance and Cornus florida L. providing a new large-bracted dogwood, which is an exceptionally vigorous, highly floriferous, small, flowering tree, more nearly like C. kousa, being upright in habit rather than low and spreading like C. florida, yet more fully branched and spreading as compared with C. kousa and having a period of floral display that is intermediate to C. florida and C. kousa, exhibiting highly textured, rounded and overlapping white floral bracts that are larger than those of either parent plant.

Dogwood tree 'Aurora'

An interspecific hybrid of Cornus kousa and Cornus florida, which is a large bracted, vigorous, highly floriferous, flowering tree, most nearly like its parent C. kousa, which plant is upright rather than low and spreading as in C. florida, the instant plant being more fully branched and spreading as compared with C. kousa, with a period of floral display that is intermediate to C. kousa and C. florida, exhibiting attractive pink bracts unlike those of any other hybrid of C. kousa.times.C. florida.

Dogwood tree -- `Stellar Pink`

A hybrid of Cornus kousa and Cornus florida providing a new large-bracted dogwood, which is a vigorous, highly floriferous, small, flowering tree, more nearly like C. florida, the plant being low and spreading rather than upright as C. kousa, yet more densely branched and foliaged close to the ground as compared with C. florida and having a flowering period intermediate that of the parental species.

Dogwood tree `Rutfan`

An interspecific F.sub.1 hybrid of the species Cornus kousa and Cornus florida exhibiting large overlapping white bracts and floriferous in a period from about May 18 to about June 3, the floral display ending about the time plants of C. kousa begin their floral display, plants of this cultivar being similar to its seed parent, C. kousa, as regards its upright vase shaped habit when youngbut intermediate plants of the two parent species in the nature of the overwintering flower budds, together with freedom from infestation by dogwood borer and 'dogwood decline'.

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Somerville, NJ, United States of America

Elwin R Orton, Jr