USPP498P - Apricot - Google Patents

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Dec. 30,1941. 5 BROOKS ETYAL Plant Pat. 498

APRICOT Filed July 30, 1940 INVENTOR Bert Brooks Md Glenn Bro oks Patented Dec. 30, 1941' Plant Pat. 498

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE APRICOT Bert Brooks and Glenn M. Brooks, Lafayette, Oreg.

Application July 30, 1940, Serial No. 348,533

1 Claim. (01. 4762) This apricot differs in size and color from any other apricot known to us. Its color is more like that of a peach than the color of an ordinary apricot. This apricot is also much larger than the average apricot, being thus similar in size to that of a small ordinary peach.

The texture of our apricot is finer, and its meat is firmer than that of ordinary apricots, the term ordinary apricot is to be understood as referring to all other well-known varieties, for example, Riland, Moorpark, Perfection, Gilbert, Lewis, Chinese and Royal.

Our variety also contains a much larger sugar content, than all other varieties of apricots known to us. We had a test made of our apricot as to sugar content and were informed that the sugar content of our apricot was greater by approximately than that of other apricots. A characteristic of our apricot is that it ripens several days ahead of the average apricot, and usually ripens earlier than the peach or plum, or any of the soft fruits, except the cherry.

A further characteristic of our variety of apricot is that the fruit after ripening stays longer on the tree than the ordinary peach; while the Due to the texture and greater sugar content of our apricot, it keeps much longer than the ordinary apricot.

The accompanying drawing was made from one of our apricots, and reproduces the same in its natural colors. The figures shown being as follows:

Figure 1 shows one side of our apricot; Figure 2 shows a side of our apricot normal to the side shown by Figure 1; and

Figure 3 shows one of our apricots cut in half,

thus illustrating the form of its pit.

As will be noted from Figure 3, the pit of the fruit is free and thus is easily removed. Our apricot is of a reddish color, and such is also the color of its meat as shown by Figure 3.

Our variety of apricot originated in a seedling tree grown in Homedale, Idaho. The tree when discovered by us was approximately six years old and had borne fruit every year except for two years when its growth was interfered with by frost conditions. We propagated the tree by cutting buds from it and grafting these on a seedling, preferably a peach seedling. All trees propagated by us in this manner produced fruit which had all the characteristics above described.

Propagation of the tree may possibly also be made by cutting and by grafting, but in our opinion the best and surest method of propagation is by a bud taken from a tree reproduced by bud and grafting method traceable back to the original tree. has continuously produced fruit of the same character as that grown by the original tree.

Because of the greater sugar content of our apricot, it excels other varieties for drying; and the size of our apricot, and firmness of its meat makes it a better apricot for shipping.

We claim:

A new variety of apricot as shown and described, characterized in that the fruit is of unusually large size, its skin has a reddish exterior tint, its meat also has a reddish tint, and is firm,

' and the fruit has a tree pit.

BERT BROOKS. GLENN M. BROOKS.

The propagation so made by us

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