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USPP1869P
USPP1869P US PP1869 P USPP1869 P US PP1869P
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  • This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of peach tree which bears very highly colored peaches, which are firm yellow fleshed, some times freestone, of good size, fine shipping quality, with trees of good production and with a mid-season blooming season.
  • a distinguishing characteristic of the instant variety is that it ripens in Red Blufi, California, about seven days ahead of Redhaven (unpatented) and about ten days later than Merrill Gemfree (Plant Patent No. 1,409).
  • the fruit of the subject variety is shown in elevation together with twigs and leaves and an additional fruit is shown divided on its suture plane with its stone exposed.
  • Trunk Medium stocky, medium shaggy.
  • Form Globose to slightly ovoid.
  • Suture-Distinct shallow, extends from base but discontinues at apex, some have a slight depression beyond the pistil point.
  • Cavity -Abrupt, elongated in suture plane, with suture showing on one or both sides.
  • Flesh Color from yellow (9-K-4) near skin to (9-K- 8), some color in flesh (9Ll1). The red is mottled throughout on some fruit, some fruit with little red.
  • the tree and its fruit herein described may vary some due to climatic and soil conditions under which the variety may be grown, and the method of growing, including fertilizing, pruning, thinning, the pest and diseases present on the tree, and other causes.
  • a new and distinct variety of peach tree substantially as shown and described characterized by the production of highly colored fruit resembling the Merrill Gernfrec (Plant Patent No. 1,409) but being of brighter red blush and ripening approximately ten days later than the Gemfree and approximately ten days earlier than the Redhaven (unpatentetd), the fruit also being characterized by fi-rm, yellow flesh, good size and by being clingstone when firm but becoming partly freestone when soft ripe.

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