Abstract: A new variety of Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Chisel Time Pink,’ having a good uniform canopy of white quill single flowers with pink spoon tips and a light green disc. The new variety has a medium tall vigor, free branching, uniform spreading habit and good foliage presentation.

Abstract: A new variety of Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Vamp Time Dark Pink,’ having a good uniform canopy of dark pink decorative flowers. The new variety has a medium vigor, free branching, with a uniform spreading habit and good foliage presentation.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a new and distinct variety of Petunia plant having a spreading habit. The Petunia plant has abundant branching, and great profusion of blooms, the whole plant remaining in bloom for a considerable period of time. The flowers are single and slightly small size, the petals having vivid red color. The bottom color of the corolla throat is moderate red and the outside of the corolla tube is grayish yellowish pink. The plant exhibits high resistance to rain, heat, cold and disease.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Nemesia plant named ‘Innkablue’, characterized by its upright, outwardly spreading to trailing plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; and numerous dark violet-colored flowers.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Kalanchoe plant named ‘Patty’ is provided. This new cultivar is characterized by its bright orange flowers, dark green foliage, compact growth habit and excellent basal branching.

Abstract: A distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Sky’, characterized by its upright plant habit; dark green-colored foliage; freely flowering habit; decorative quilled-type inflorescences that are about 8.9 cm in diameter; attractive white-colored ray florets; response time about 59 days; strong peduncles; and good postproduction longevity with inflorescences and foliage maintaining good substance and color for about two weeks in an interior environment.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Verbena plant particularly distinguished by its bicolor flower, red in the center of the flower towards pink on the edge, very early flowering and a spreading habit that is first semi-erect and later spreading.

Abstract: An Osteospermum cultivar particularly distinguished by its purple-pink flower color and tendency to hold flowers open later in the evening.

Abstract: A image is printed from a source of drawing instructions. The image is reducible to pixels arranged in a plurality of ranked image lines. The system employs a storage device having compressed and uncompressed regions. Each region has a designated capacity and each is arranged to store pixels of one or more of the plurality of image lines. A drawing processor is coupled to the storage device and can be coupled to the source of drawing instructions for responding thereto. This drawing processor can store new pixels in the storage device for successively selected ones of the image lines. The drawing processor has a conditional device, a decompression device and an insertion device. The conditional device can compressively encode and move from the uncompressed region to the compressed region, a remote one of the image lines, if: a) the selected one of the image lines is in the compressed region, and b) the uncompressed region has reached its designated capacity.

Abstract: A method of motivating players to return to a casino includes receiving a request to convert a predetermined value of casino currency to cash. Upon the receipt of the request, a premium value is calculated based at least in part on the predetermined value. Subsequently, the customer is provided an instrument having a total value equal to the predetermined value plus the premium value when the instrument is used at the casino. The instrument may comprise a check having a negotiable value equal to the predetermined value, and a second pay-line defining the total value with the premium to be provided if the check is cashed at the issuing casino.