USPP3590P - Peach plant - Google Patents

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USPP3590P
USPP3590P US PP3590 P USPP3590 P US PP3590P
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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 a tree of medium size which bears freestone fruit with from half to almost all of its skin surface covered with brilliant red, and when ripe has yellow flesh that is firm on the outside, allowing for easy commercial handling, but riper on the inside, thus permitting all of the fruit to be picked at one time, or when properly pruned to be harvested mechanically in one picking.
  • I originated the present variety of peach on a farm formerly owned by me near Red Bluff, Tehama County, Calif, by planting seeds from open pollinated blossoms of Red Lady and after the resulting tree came into bearing, moving it to Tulare County, Calif, where the tree was grafted into test orchards in Tulare and Fresno Counties, asexually reproducing the instant variety.
  • the instant variety proved to have the same fruit and tree characteristics as the original tree and to be worthy of commercial use.
  • the accompanying drawing is an oil painting of a characteristic mature fruit of the subject variety showing the shape and skin color.
  • Trunk Straight, medium stocky, gray and shaggy on mature trees, brown on young trees.
  • Lenticels Medium size and quantity.
  • Twigs Medium length, red-brown when mature, green when young.
  • LEAVES Source Selected from mid-portion of terminal shoots 12 to 24 inches long.
  • Size Generally medium in size, main leaves 5 to 7% inches long, Va to 1% inches wide, medium thin. Color: Dark green on upper surface, light green on lower surface, ssen very light yellow-green.
  • Petiole Medium size, about /2 inch long.
  • Glands Reniform, usually about three.
  • FLOWERS Buds Medium size, pubescent, plump, free. Blossoms: Small to medium in size, pink, to pinkish salmon. Pollen: Abundant.
  • FRUIT Season Described at maturity. Firm ripe first week of July.
  • Form Variable. Generally cordate, some globose with slight tip.
  • Cavity Flaring, somewhat abruptly, elongated in suture plane, some almost round; /2 to inch to depth, /2 to inch in breadth, apex mucronate, pistil point apical.
  • Stem Medium size, generally about /8 inch long, /a
  • Skin Medium thin, sweet, tenacious to flesh unless very ripe; short, scant pubescense; color light red blush 51(10 and SKU to dark red blush 5L1l over an undercolor of light yellow 9L3 to medium yellow 9L6 and 9L7, to orange yellow llLlO, as illustrated with one fruit showing yellow side and the other fruit showing nearly all red on the skin surface.
  • Flesh Yellow, strongly red around stone, moderate amygdalin, generally firm texture softening first next to stone, retaining firmness at surface until nearly over ripe; distinct aroma; good eating quality.
  • Fibers Short, few.
  • Size Medium, 1% to 1% inches in length, to 1 inch in width.
  • Form Generally obovate with acuminate tip and generally oblique base; oval hilum, acuminate apex, generally equal sides but few unequal.
  • Ventral edge Thick, with thin grooves.
  • Dorsal edge Deep furrows on either side interrupted toward apex.
  • Color Reddish brown when fresh, tan when dried.
  • a new and distinct variety of peach tree substantially as illustrated and described and particularly characterized as being a medium size tree regularly bearing large fruit having a surface covering of brilliant red over from half to almost all of its surface and with freestone yellow flesh that stays firm near the surface when ripe so it may be picked in one picking, or when properly pruned may be mechanically harvested in one picking, and which most nearly resembles Red Lady, also known as Scarlet Lady 2 (Plant Pat. 2,601), but is an improve- No references cited.

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