USPP1668P - Peach - Google Patents

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Dec. 10, 1957 DERQUX Plant Pat. 1,668

PEACH TREE ATTORNEYS United'S tates Patent PEACH Raymond'D erouX, Marges, France, assignon bymesne assignments, to Stark Bros Nurseries and Orchards Co., Louisiana, Mot, a corporation of Missouri Application May 21,1957, Serial No. 660,729

Claims priority, application France June 29, 1956 1 Claim. (Cl. 47-62) The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of peach tree which was discovered by me as a bud sport of the variety known as Mayflower (unpatented), the discovery having been made in my cultivated orchard located at Marges (Drome), France.

While cultivating Mayflower peaches in my orchard referred to above, my attention was attracted to the unusually early ripening and greater coloration of the fruit on a limb of a Mayflower peach tree in contrast to the normal habits of the Mayflower variety, and I thereupon kept this limb under close observation. Continued observations and subsequent tests and asexual reproduction of the sport aforesaid fully established and confirmed that the early ripening habit and the greater coloration of the fruit of the sport were fixed and come true to form by asexual reproduction.

The tests and observations also established additional important characteristics of the new sport which distinguish it from its parent, Mayflower, and which, when considered together, represent a new and improved combination of the following features:

(1) Early ripening habit as compared to Mayflower which heretofore has been the earliest peach on the French market-from 8 to days earlier;

(2) More coloration of the fruit as compared with the fruit of Mayflower;

(3) Greater productivity than Mayflower;

(4) Less tendency of the stones to split when the fruit is ripe; and

(5) Hardier flowers, and consequent greater cold resistance in the spring as compared With those of Mayflower.

Asexual reproduction of my new variety by budding, as performed by me in my orchard at Marges (Drome), France, shows that the foregoing characteristics come true to form and are established and transmissible through succeeding propagations, and definitely diflerentiate the new sport from its parent, as well as from all other peach varieties of which I am aware.

The accompanying drawing shows typical specimens of the fruit and foliage of my new variety as depicted in color.

The following is a detailed description of the new variety, with color terminology in accordance with general color terms of ordinary dictionary significance:

Observations made from specimens grown at Marges (Drome) France.

Tree: Medium tall; vigorous; semi-erect; bushy; somewhat vase-formed; hardy; very productive; regular bearer; floral buds born even on suckers.

T run/c.Medium stockiness. Barkmedium roughness; color-grey.

Branches.-Medium stockiness; medium roughness; many lenticels of medium size; seven nodes of floral buds of generally double form on the central cm. s:ctien of the branch.

Leaves.-Lanceolate; pointed at apex; oval-pointed at base; medium size; medium thickness; smooth;

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' erately deep gram-"under, side -slightly clearer and whiter; in autumn, the leav es become violet a rees with efls a Ps Pl m e" he r slider side. Margin-notched, with fine serrations. Petiole-rather short; sometimes of medium length, varying from 0.8 cm. to 1.1 cm. Glands 2 or 3 per leaf; generally 2, but seldom 4; alternate at the apex of the petiole or at the base of the leaf, and often on small lobes of the leaf; rather small; globular; not pubescent.

Flowers: Bloom in mid-season at about the same time as Amsden (unpatented) and Mayflower (unpatented); roseate type.

Size.Rather large.

Fruit:

Date when described.-Iune 13th.

Size.Rather small; substantially same size as May flower fruit (about 12 to the kilo); substantially uniform in size and not as irregular as Mayflower fruit. Axial diameterfrom 4.8 to 5.3 cm. Transverse diameter in suture plane-from 4.6 to 4.9 cm. Diameter at right angle to suture plane-from 5.1 to 5.8 cm.

F0rm.Regular; slightly more spherical and more regular than Mayflower; slightly asymmettial due to one lip being sometimes more developed than the other.

Suture.Moderately visible, but still rather superficial (from 0.5 to 0.7 cm.); suture often prolonged beyond pistil point in more superficial manner, but divides fruit into two hemispheres; sometimes a slight depression around the pistil point.

Pistil p0int.Slightly pointed and erect; does not go beyond the plane tangent to the apex of the fruit.

Stem.Rather short (slightly shorter than "Mayflower).

Cavity.Rounded or slightly elongated in the i lane of the suture; dimensions slightly less than Mayflower. Width--from 1.1 to 1.4 cm. Depthfrom 0.5 to 0.7 cm.

Skin.Semi-thin; separates well from the flesh; rather sparse and thin down. Color-deep yellow, lightly overcast with rose, with from one-half to two-thirds carmine red, shading to purple in the center of the carmine red zone; edge of latter zone is speckled ca'rtnifle red, with a bit of yellow in the center.

Flesh.Colorwhite or uniformly creamy-white; sometimes slight marks of rose red under the skin and also around some of the stone cavities. Texturerather tender; with grains of medium size. Juice-abundant. Fibresrather few; tender. Ripensusually begins near the most developed part. Flavorslightly acid. Aroma-good fragrance and medium sweet-average slightly more than Mayflower.

Stone: Semi-free.

Size.Rather small. engthabout 2.4 cm. Widthabout 1.9 cm. Thickness-about 1.5 cm.

Fibres.--Medium length.

Balsa-Slightly oblique.

Apex.Acuminate.

Sides.-Equal; curved.

Surface.lrregularly furrowed, especially near the apex.

t, .t 1 4 Keeping quality: Good. Shipping quality: Good.

I claim:

A new and distinct variety of peach tree of the semifree stone and white-fleshed fruit type, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the earlier ripening habit, greater coloration and more rarely split stones of its fruit, its greater productivity, and its hardier flowers and their consequent greater resistance to spring freezes, all as compared with the variety Mayflower (unpatented).

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