USPP2153P - Peach tree - Google Patents
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- USPP2153P USPP2153P US PP2153 P USPP2153 P US PP2153P
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- the present invention relates to a peach tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety thereof broadly characterized by being a medium sized tree with distinctly wavy and crinkled leaves and having fruit which is highly colored, large, firm, generally round, freestoue, of excellent shipping quality, good flavor and texture, which ripens late in the season with Merrill Fiesta (Plant Patent No. 1,099), and which has yellow flesh which is firm but not tough.
- peach trees tend to produce rank growth and dense shade resulting in serious impairment of the coloring of the fruit. Inasmuch as most fruits rely on eye appeal for their sales, color impairment is highly undesirable.
- a primary object to the plant breeding procedures which have resulted in the development of this new peach variety has been to achieve a highly colored, red peach which achieves intense color even under conditions of rank growth and dense shade.
- Another object has been to produce a peach that is firm when fully 1ipe,'so that it may be more cheaply harvested and packed, but which will soften after harvest, as in retail stands, to a fine textured, melting fleshed freestone.
- Another object has been to provide an improved late bearing peach tree.
- Another object has been to achieve'a peach tree somewhat similar to the Merrill Fiesta but producing fruit of markedly higher color.
- Another object has been to provide a peach tree somewhat similar to the Merrill Splendor (Plant Patent No. 1,257) but which produces fruit which ripen appreciably latter.
- FIG. 1 illustrates characteristic leaves and a mature peach borne by a twig of the subject variety.
- FIG. 2 is a section on the suture plane of a peach of the subject variety showing characteristic flesh and stone coloration.
- peach tree The most distinctive characteristics of the instant variety of peach tree are its medium size, late ripening, its production of large, firm, yellow-fleshed, highly colored freestone peaches, and its distinctly wavy and crinkled leaves.
- the instant variety most nearly resembles the Merrill Splendor (Plant Patent No. 1,099) but is an improvement thereof in that the tree is smaller, the blossoms are self fertile, the leaves are more crinkly and wavy, and the fruit ripens about two weeks later.
- This new variety of peach tree was produced by me on my farm near Red Bluff, Tehama County, California from a seedling of unknown parentage. For many years, I have hybridized plants, particularly peach trees, in the development of new varieties. The parentage is carefully selected, the hybridizing carefully performed, and exacting records maintained. However, in this instance, the new variety resulted from a seed of a group which were obtained from the hybridizing work but which had become mixed and their specific parentage unidentifiable.
- Trunk Medium stocky, medium shaggy, brownish grey.
- Branches Older branches, greyish and shaggy; younger branches brown to medium brown and smoother, with numerous medium size lenticels.
- v I Leaves selected from midpor'tion of vigorous unbranched terminal shoots 12" to 18" long):
- Suture.-Distinct shallow, extends from base to apex, has slight depression beyond pistil point.
- a new and distinct variety of peach tree substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by being a medium sized tree with distinctly wavy and crinkled leaves and having 'fruit which is highly colored, large, firm, with excellent shipping qualities, generally round with yellow flesh, which is almost completely free from the pit, but not tough, good flavor, which ripens very late in the season with Merrill Fiesta (Plant Patent No. 1,099) and which most nearly resembles Merrill Splendor (Plant Patent No. 1,257) but ripens about two weeks iater, has self fertile blossoms, is a smaller tree, and has said distinctive crinkled and wavy leaves.
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