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USPP3603P
USPP3603P US PP3603 P USPP3603 P US PP3603P
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Lewis B. Sherrill
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  • the present variety of peach tree was discovered by me on a fruit-bearing branch which occurred as a mutation on a Fairtime (unpatented) peach tree in the secondary scaffold of such tree.
  • the peach tree upon which the mutation occurred was growing in an orchard on a ranch in Kern County, Calif., and which orchard was under my supervision. I recognized that the fruit borne by the mutation limb had characteristics which were new and distinct, and I, therefore, undertook asexual reproduction of the variety.
  • Asexual reproduction of the variety I asexually reproduced the present variety of peach tree by removing scion buds from the mutation limb, and implanting such scion buds in a number of existing peach trees within the same orchard where the mutation occurred. Such asexual reproductionsupon bearing fruitran true in all respects to the original discovery; i.e., the parent mutation limb and the fruit borne thereby. No evidence is present of incompatibility of any graft unions in the reproduction of the present variety of peach tree.
  • the herein claimed variety of peach tree is of medium size, medium vigor, spreading growth, vase-form, hardy for California peach producing areas, abundantly foliated with large, uniform, lanceolate, deep-green leaves having a crenate margin and reniform glands, medium in blooming period with light pink showy flowers, and a regular and productive bearer of large, uniform, globose, freestone fruit having yellow skin substantially overspread with red, yellow flesh, and a red pit cavity with the red streaked into the flesh; the variety being particularly characterized, in comparison with the Fairtime peach (an unpatented introduction of the De partment of Agriculture, Fresno, Calif., station), by substantial likeness in its excellent qualities in tree productiveness, and fruit size, appearance, skin color including good blush color at the apex, flesh color, and flavor, but distinctas to novelty-by fruit which ripens about thirty days earlier, and has a light yellow suture line.
  • peach tree is further distinctively characterized, in comparison with the Summerset peach (an unpatented introduction of the Department of Agriculture, Fresno, Calif., station) by ripening fifteen to twenty days earlier.
  • the drawing is an illustration, by photographic reproduction in color, of a twig with leaves and attached fruit, detached leaves, and detached fruit; one of the latter being cut in half to expose the flesh, with the stone remaining in place in one of the cut halves.
  • Ventral Surface -Uniformly rounded.
  • Colon-Deep yellow (1lL-5), substantially overspread with red (5-1-6) shading to darker red (LE-6), with very few mottled areas; the red overspreading 60 to percent of the skin.
  • the stem cavity is primarily yellow.
  • the tree and its fruit herein described may 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 ofCaliforn'ia.
  • a new and distinct variety of peach tree substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by substantial similarity in tree productiveness, and freestone fruit size, appearance, skin color, flesh color, and flavor to the Fairtime peach, but distinctas to essential novelty-by fruit which ripens about thirty days earlier; and further characterized, in comparison to the Summerset peach, by ripening fifteen to twenty days earlier.

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