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• My discovery relates to a new single variety of peach tree and to the fruit of the same.
• My improved peach is a genuine freestone, the tree bearing the same originating from a bud sport planted in my orchard in 1923 in the Modesto district of Stanislaus County, California, and which tree was raised by me to maturity with the necessary care as to irrigation, cultivation, spraying etc. to insure the best crop results.
• the original peach tree from which my improved peach is produced is a cross between the Muir and Paloro varieties, since the fruit has the general appearance of the Paloro peach in color and texture of flesh, though ordinarily with a smaller amount of skin fuzz which is readily removed, while it has the characteristics of the Muir variety when subjected to a drying process.
• the tree is of medium size, vigorous and upright, dense, hardy, very productive and a regular bearer.
• the trunk and branches are of medium size and medium between smooth and shaggy, the branches being brown in color.
• the lenticels are numerous and of medium size.
• the full sized leaves are large, averaging 6 inches in length and 1% inches in width. They are lanceolate in shape, acutely pointed, medium thin, smooth and dark green, with fine serrations along the edges.
• the petiole is long, and somewhat slender.
• the trees begin to bear when about two years old, and the original tree since its first bearing year has had a heavy set each year, requiring a considerable thinning, and even then having an extremely large yield. Also, the fruit hangs well on the tree when mature and shows very little tendency to windfall.
• the fruit is a perfect freestone of medium size, averaging approximately 2% inches in diameter in both directions so that it may be considered as practically spherical.
• Its suture is distinct but relatively shallow, extending from the base to slightly beyond the apex.
• the cavity is rounding, being elongated in the suture plane with the suture showing on both sides, and having a depth of about inch and a breadth at the base of about inch.
• the base is rounded, and the apex is short, with an apical pistil point.
• the stem averages inch in length, is of medium size, and has medium adherence to the stone.
• the skin is of medium thickness and toughness
• Its surface color is mainly an evenly distributed orange yellow with a dash of crimson diffusing into the orange color from the stem end of the fruit.
• the depth of coloring of the peach however varies with the type of soil and fertilizing treatment given the tree in different years.
• the flesh is deep yellow in color, while the surface of the pit cavity is red.
• the juice is of moderate quantity and mediumly rich.
• the texture of the flesh is firm and line, similar to that of the Paloro, but with few fibres.
• the stone is free, of medium size, with a length of about 1 a breadth of 1", and a thickness of about -7 It is of oval form, with an indented base, an acute apex, and is red in color, and has but slight tendency to split at any time.
• peach tree variety herein described characterized by freestone fruit having texture similar to clingstone Paloro and the quality of keeping approximately fifteen days without refrigeration after being picked ripe.

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