NECTARINE TREEFiled Sept. 27. 1971 INVENTOR Frederic W. Anderson BY MWO MW ATTOR NEYS United States Patent O 3,330 NECTARINE TREE Frederic W. Anderson, Merced, Calif., assignor t Stark Bros Nurseries and Orchards Co., Louisiana, Mo. Filed Sept. 27, 1971, Ser. No. 184,060
the present variety of nectarine treeis a genetic dwarf with short internodes and is of medium size, very vigorous, spreading, dense, foliated with large lanceolate, acutely pointed leaves, flowered with self-fertile bloom, and is a regular and very productive bearer of uniform, symmetrical, medium size, globose fruit having yellow skin substantially overspread with red, and firm, crisp, yellow flesh with red at the surface of the pit cavity; the fruit-which is glossy-ripening about a month earlier than the Golden Prolific, being clingstone instead of freestone, and having globose instead of reniform glands.
