Abstract: A recreational water craft useable as a vehicle and as a swimming facility has first and second floatable components, the first having a deck supported by a pair of compartmented pontoons. The compartments have water and air inlet and discharge facilities and are adapted for flooding and blowing by connection with a control system that includes a pressurized air source and valves for pressurizing and bleeding air from the compartments so as to move the first component between a first position with the deck above water and a second position with the deck submerged. The second floatable component has a main floatable section with an annular pontoon that rests on the deck during the vehicle mode of use as when the first component is at the first position. The pontoon has a vertical opening and which surrounds the deck passenger area. A floatable aft section is pivotally connected to the main section and provides a mounting place for an outboard motor.

Abstract: A new sterile plant variety has many of the characteristics of the `Lavender Doll` variety and in comparison to this variety has about the same growth rate, tendency to branch when pruned, and specimen size at maturity. It has a greater natural tendency to branch without pruning, a much greater tendency to form more compact specimens with a more upright and erect posture at maturity and the phylloclades are usually shorter in length and narrower in width. The new variety has a greater resistance to nutrient deficiencies and known problem diseases of the related varieties and it is more resistant to bud abscission and provided with a greater tendency to form multiple buds on the branch tips. It has a habit of producing more blooms with about the same bloom life as that of the `Lavender Doll` variety but at a noticeably earlier date in the blooming season.

Abstract: A new plant variety which is sterile and produces a light or pastel salmon colored bloom, in comparison to the `Christmas Cheer` variety has a faster growth rate, larger specimens at comparable stages of maturity and a more upright posture and compact appearance as evidenced by more erect stems and heavier branching with or without inducement by pruning. The new variety has a greater resistance to stem breakage and longer and wider phylloclades when the `Christmas Cheer` variety. It also has a greater resistance to nutrient deficiencies and known problem diseases of the related varieties. It has a greater tendency for multiple bud formations and a greater resistance to bud abscission than the `Christmas Cheer` variety. It also has a habit or producing more blooms that have longer tepals than those of the `Christmas Cheer` variety and a longer bloom life.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Euyphorbia plant of the milii group has a very compacy habit with short internodes and very frequent branching that is productive of clavate branches which at the nodes bear persistent long acicular stipular spines. The leaves are oblanceolate to obovate and the plant develops pseudobracts as opposite to subopposite pairs on leafy stems and branches and which subtend a developing leafy branch and/or cyathial branch. The blades of the pseudobracts are usually variegated and have a basic field which in color is usually dominated by a red, purplish red and/or purplish pink hue. The basic field usually has streaks and/or blotches which vary in pattern and size and which in color are usually dominated by a yellow green hue. The inflorescence rarely exceeds three tiers of cyathia and the bract blades of the cyathia are in color dominated by a red and/or purplish red hue.

Abstract: A new plant variety of the Bromeliaceae family was developed as an inter-specific cross between Aechmea dichlamydea Baker var. trinitensis L. B. Smith and A. fasciata (Lindley) Baker var. fasciata and generally resembles the parent varieties but has leaves that lack the bars of the var. fasciata and have leaf sheaths that are wider, the scape bracts being less compactly positioned than those of the var. fasciata thus providing a more open inflorescence while the sepals exceed the floral bracts and provide a more attractive inflorescence. In contract to the var. trinitensis the leaf scales are whitish and translucent and the spiked are polystichously flowered instead of distichously flowered.

Abstract: A new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family is of the type known commercially as a "Christmas Cactus" and has a growth habit similar to that of the "Gold Charm" variety but has buds and sterile flowers with somewhat different color characteristics from those of the "Gold Charm" variety.

Abstract: A new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family is of the type known commercially as a "Christmas Cactus" and has a growth habit which is similar to that the "Twilight Tangerine" variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,200) but which, nevertheless, differs, among other things, by having phylloclades with longer and thicker midribs and thicker wings and teeth, a bloom with more intense salmon coloration, and flowers which are sterile and have a sepaloid series of tepals with a smaller number of tepals and shorter tepal lengths and smaller tepal widths, a tube laminating series of tepals with a larger number of tepals and greater tepal widths, a tube forming series of tepals with greater widths, and a longer perianth tube.

Abstract: A new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family is of the type known commercially as a "Christmas Cactus" and has a growth habit which is similar to that of the "Kris Kringle" variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,688) but which, nevertheless, differs, among other things, by having phylloclades with thicker and wider wings and with thicker and longer teeth, and sterile flowers with shorter perianth tubes and tube laminating and forming tepals that have generally wider blades.

Abstract: A new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family is of the type known commercially as a "Christmas Cactus" and has a growth habit which is similar to that of the "Alba" variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,574) but which, nevertheless, differs, among other things, by having phylloclades with thicker and wider wings and thicker teeth, and flowers which are sterile and have a larger number of tube laminating tepals that are also shorter in length and of a greater width and tube forming tepals which are also shorter in length and of a greater width.

Abstract: A new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family is of the type known commercially as a "Christmas Cactus" and has a growth habit which is similar to that the "Gold Charm" variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,104) but which, nevertheless, differs, among other things, by having phylloclades with thicker and wider wings and thicker teeth in greater numbers per phyllocalde, and flowers which are sterile and have shorter tube laminating tepals, a perianth tube with longer major and minor elliptical axis, shorter tube attached stamens and larger diameter and shorter length styles.

Abstract: A new daylily plant having a distal leaf blade area of generally a yellow-green, olive-green and/or yellowish-green hue; the abaxial side having a distal blade area with an inconspicuously mottled, splotched basic field usually dominated by a yellow-green, olive-green and/or yellowish-green hue; spots and splotches generally lighter than that of the basic field but dominated by a yellow-green hue. Inflorescence shade is generally green, yellowish-green, olive-green and/or yellow-green hue; bracts being generally yellow-green hue and lighter in the basal and marginal areas. Branches of the corymb are dominated by a yellowish-green and/or yellow-green hue. The flower is very fragrant. Free portions of the petals are crispate-undulate in a narrow marginal band in the petal distal area; the distal area a basic field that is interrupted on the adaxial side, by a narrow axially extending stripe.

Abstract: A new and distinct plant variety of the cactaceae family is of the type known commercially as a "Christmas Cactus" and has growth characteristics which are similar to those of the "Christmas Fantasy" variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,046), but which are nevertheless modified by a combination of characteristics that include among others: phylloclades with shorter and thicker midribs, thicker and wider wings, and thicker teeth that are also greater in number; and flowers that have longer and wider sepaloid tepals, longer and wider tube laminating tepals, shorter and wider tube forming tepals, a perianth tube with longer major and minor axis, and ovaries with longer major and minor axes.

Abstract: A new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family that is of the type known commercially as a "Christmas Cactus" has a growth habit which is similar to that of the "Lavender Doll" variety but which, nevertheless, differs among other things, by having phylloclades with shorter midribs, flowers that have wider tube forming tepals, a longer perianth tube with larger major and minor axes as well as longer styles and ovaries.

Abstract: A new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family is of the type known commercially as a "Christmas Cactus" and has a growth habit which is similar to that of the `Kris Kringle` variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,688) but which, nevertheless, differs, among other things, by having phylloclades with thicker midribs and with thicker and wider wings and longer teeth, and sterile flowers with longer tube laminating tepals and a greater number of tube attached stamens with greater length dimensions.

Abstract: A new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family is of the type known commercially as a "Christmas Cactus" and has a growth habit which is similar to that of the "Christmas Charm" variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,196) but which, nevertheless, differs, among other things, by having phylloclades with thicker and longer midribs, wider wings, and longer teeth, and flowers longer perianth tube with greater major axis dimensions, and a longer basally united group of stamen.

Abstract: A new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family is of the type known commercially as a `Christmas Cactus` and has a growth habit which is similar to that of the `Kris Kringle` variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,688) but which, nevertheless, differs, among other things, by having phylloclades with thicker midribs, wider and thicker wings, longer teeth in greater number per phylloclade, and sterile flowers with wider tube laminating and tube forming tepals, fewer tube attached stamen that are greater in length, a stamen that is greater in length, and an ovary with longer major and minor axis.

Abstract: A new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family is of the type known commercially as a "Spring Cactus" or "Easter Cactus" and has a growth habit which is similar to that of the `Scarlet O'Hara` variety but which, nevertheless, differs, among other things, by having phylloclades with shorter midribs, and sterile flowers with fewer tube laminating tepals, tube forming tepals that are shorter and wider, tepals dominated by hues of purplish pink and purplish red, and an ovary with shorter length dimensions.

Abstract: A new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family is of the type known commercially as a `Spring Cactus` and has growth characteristics which are similar to those of the `Scarlet O'Hara` variety, but which are nevertheless modified by a combination of characteristics that include among others: flowers that have shorter and narrower tube laminating tepals, and different dominating hues of color in the tube laminating and tube forming tepals.