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Oral Session 6—Ornamental Plant Breeding Moderator: Daniel F. Warnock 18 July 2005, 4:00–6:00 p.m. Room 107

’s breeding endeavors; ( B ) winnowing and bagging seed from the season’s collection—large quantities were often open-pollinated; ( C ) a display of the Luther Burbank Experiment Forms of ornamental plants by Stark Brothers’ Nurseries, which purchased most of

landscape setting. Information generated in this study will be helpful in developing selection strategies in a Vitex breeding program and could potentially be applied to other ornamental breeding programs. Literature Cited Antonovics, J. 1976 The nature of

86 WORKSHOP 8 (Abstr. 936) Breeding Tropical Ornamentals

Floriculture & Ornamentals

‘Weeping Dragon’ is a new ornamental citrus cultivar released 30 June 2016 ( Bowman, 2016 ) by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. The major positive attributes of this unique ornamental citrus scion are the

Oral Session 14—Fruit Breeding 28 July 2006, 4:15–5:15 p.m. Bayside A Moderator: David Byrne

( Luo et al., 2016 ). Iris dichotoma and Iris domestica are native to China, flower in the summer, and exhibit strong tolerance to drought, cold, and barren ( Ruan et al., 2017 ). The newly purple-colored (RHS N82A) ornamental iris cultivar ‘Sweet

Unlike most ornamental trees that bloom in spring, Hibiscus syriacus L. (Rose of Sharon), which is the national flower of Korea, has nearly 60 to 100 d of flowering time from early July to late October, and there are more than 350 varieties of

‘Purple Lady’ and ‘Miss Holland’ by Institute of Floriculture, Liaoning Academy of Agricultural Sciences. In 2001, the cross was made and 1214 hybrid seeds were obtained. In 2007, there were 23 breeding lines that gave the first flowering. The best