USPP2071P - Merrill - Google Patents
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- USPP2071P USPP2071P US PP2071 P USPP2071 P US PP2071P
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- fruit
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- merrill
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- 235000013399 edible fruits Nutrition 0.000 description 13
- 235000006040 Prunus persica var persica Nutrition 0.000 description 12
- 244000144730 Amygdalus persica Species 0.000 description 8
- 239000004575 stone Substances 0.000 description 6
- 240000005809 Prunus persica Species 0.000 description 4
- 241000196324 Embryophyta Species 0.000 description 3
- 241000003955 Tehama Species 0.000 description 2
- 230000011681 asexual reproduction Effects 0.000 description 2
- 239000000835 fiber Substances 0.000 description 2
- 230000006308 pollination Effects 0.000 description 2
- 239000002253 acid Substances 0.000 description 1
- 238000004040 coloring Methods 0.000 description 1
- 235000021185 dessert Nutrition 0.000 description 1
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- This invention relates to a new and variety of peach which bears large, round, yellow fleshed, ,firm, freestone peaches, with red coloring over about half of the surface of the fruit as grown in California, and
- the accompanying drawing shows a characteristic twig of the subject variety bearing foliage and a mature fruit as well as such a fruit divided on its suture plane to reveal flesh and pit characteristics.
- Trunk Medium stocky, medium shaggy.
- Branches Main branches grey and medium shaggy when older, moderately smooth and brown when younger. Lenticles--medium few, medium size.
- Leaves (Selected from midportion of vigorous unbranched terminal shoots 18" to 24" long.) Length- 6" to 6%"; average, 67 Width-1%" to 1%"; average, 1 /2". Medium size.
- Flower buds Hardiness unknown, medium size, truncate to obtuse, plump, free, pubescent. Flowers: Medium early, pink, small.
- Skim-Medium thick medium tender frees from flesh when soft ripe, tendency to crack, none. C0loryellow (10-L-6) to darker yellow (11- I-10) with red markings (4-L-10) to (6-L-10) to darkest red blush (7-L-12).
- Flesh Light yellow (9-L-4) to darker yellow (104-8), red at stone (4-L-4) to (6-L-6) farther from stone. Surface of pit cavity, light red, wtih light red fibers.
- Stone Free, adheres to flesh along suture plane at times when firm ripe sometimes elsewhere. Fibers, long, distinct, tender.
- a new and distinct variety of peach tree substantially as herein illustrated and described which ripens approximately twenty to twenty-five days after Elberta (unpatented); which produces large, yellow-fleshed, free stone fruit of distinctive red color and round shape, particularly characterized by unusual firmness of its flesh; and which resembles the Merrill Splendor (Plant Patent No. 1,257) but is distinguished therefrom in blossoming somewhat earlier, being self fertile and having firuit that is redder in color and ripens approximately five days later.
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