the present variety of nectarine treeis large, vigorous, spreading, vase-formed, open, hardy, and a regular and productive bearer of large, uniform fruit-of good to best eating qualityhaving yellow skin substantially overspread with red, and yellow flesh with red near the stone; the latter being semifree; the variety having general similarity in tree and fruit to the Star Grand II, but in particular being distinctively characterized, in comparison, by a ripening period approximately two weeks earlier, and which is about two to three days prior to the Early Sun Grand (United States Plant Patent No. 1,420).
TrunkSize.Medium. Texture.Medium.
ThicknessThick to medium.
the nectarine tree and its fruit herein describedmay vary in slight detail due to climatic and soil conditions under which the variety may be grown; the present description being of the variety as grown in the Central Valley of California.-
a new and distinct variety of nectarine treesubstantially as illustrated and described, which is large, vigorous, spreading, vase-formed, open, hardy, and a regular and productive bearer of large, uniform fruitof good to best eating qualityhaving yellow skin substantially overspread with red, and yellow flesh with red near the stone; the latter being semifree; the variety having general similarity in tree and fruit to the Star Grand II, but in particular being distinctively characterized, in comparison, by a ripening period approximately two weeks earlier, and which is about two to three days prior to the Early Sun Grand.