USPP3796P - Nectarine tree - Google Patents
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- NECTARINE TREE Filed Dec. 4, 1974 United States Patent Plant Pat. 3,795 Patented Oct. 28, 1975 3,796 NECTARINE TREE John S. Benner, 16210 E. Adams Ave., Parlier, Calif. 93648 Filed Dec. 4, 1974, Ser. No. 529,287 Int. Cl. A01h 5 03 US. Cl. Plt.41 1 Claim ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
- a variety of nectarine tree characterized by the ripening of its yellow-fleshed fruit concurrently with that of the Gold King (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,424), Regal Grand (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,751) and Flame Kist (believed to be unpatented) nectarines from which, and all other nectarines known to ripen at the time, it is distinguished by its dominant dark red color overlaying a minutely appearing fleck-like yellow background.
- the present invention relates to a new and distinct tree of the nectarine variety and more particlarly to such a tree which produces large yellow-fleshed, globulars substantially symmetrical fruit concurrently with the Gold King (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,424), Regal Grand (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,751) and Flame Kist (unpatented) from which it is distinguished by its dominant dark red color with only minor fleck-like appearance of yellow background coloration.
- Peach trees and nectarine trees have been extensively refined and improved by plant breeding and selection, as Well as by the discovery and asexual reproduction of spontaneous or induced mutations or sports, natural or random breeding and the like. Such efforts have resulted in such trees producing fruit of improved flavor, increased sugar, better size, improved color, earlier ripening, later ripening, solider flesh,, improved storage and shipping characteristics, disease-resistance and other advantages.
- nectarines have long been known that bright red nectarines enjoy better sales than nectarines of other colors although otherwise of the same or equivalent quality. It has also been known that for the fresh fruit market it is desirable for nectarines to be of substantially uniform shape, to be globular and of attractive appearance, to be firm of flesh and of good flavor and to have slight or non-observable sutures. Prior to the present invention, however, no such nectarine was available during the last three weeks of August under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of California.
- the nectarine tree of the present invention was discovered by the applicant during August 1972 on a farm owned by the applicant at 16210 East Adams Avenue, Parlier, Calif. as a sport in a Gold King nectarine tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,424) in an orchard thereof then being harvested. Being a long time grower of nectarines, and being alert to the desirable characteristics not available in nectarines at such harvest season, the applicants attention was drawn to the dark red fruit produced on the sport. At the proper time, the applicant selected buds from the newly discovered sport and budded them into several host nectarine trees on his same farm and observed the growth and production of such buds during the succeeding two years. The asexual reproductions resulting from said buds were found to have the same characteristics as the sport discovered by the applicant and subsequently described.
- the drawing consists of a colored photograph first showing a pair of fruit of the present invention, one viewed at right angles to the suture plane and the other viewed in the suture plane followed by four halves of the nectarine of the present invention cut on the suture plane with the pits remaining in position to illustrate internal coloration.
- Leaves.Size Varied widely. Length: 10 centimeters to 18 centimeters. Width: 2.5 centimeters to 5 centimeters. Shape: Lanceolate, with tip acuminate. Thickness: Medium. Margin: Markedly crenate. Color: Upper surface SGY 4/3 and lower surface SGY 5/6. Glandular characteristics: Irregular from none to two on each side of the petiole and/ or base of the blade, occasionally more than two. Globose and approximately one millimeter in diameter. Externally green matching adjacent portions of leaf with dark centers.
- Skim-Thickness Thin. Texture: Smooth. Tendency to crack: None observed. Pubescence: None. Color: Dark Red 2.512. 3/7 to red 2.51% 6/11 over yellow 2.5Y 8/ 12, the dark red bei" predominant and the yellow background ap s. as minute flecks.
- St0ne.Type Cling, loosening somewhat at maturity. Fibers: Few and delicate, removed in the drawing to show stone. Size: Length 3.8 centimeters, Width 2.6 centimeters, thickness 2 centimeters. Form: Obovate and cuspidate, non-symmetrical, deeply grooved. Color: Dark red 2.51%. 3/7 over red 25R 6/ 11. Splitting tendency: None observed even during 1974 When many Gold King nectarine stones split.
- Resistance 10 ilIS-LCZS and bove may vary in response to variations m, soil, and cultural conditions. However, When w th proper farming techniques under the ecoa1 condi ns prevailing in the eastern part of the y of Fresno of the Sta *2 of California, its characteras described above.
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