USPP540P - White freestone peach tree - Google Patents

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USPP540P
USPP540P US PP540 P USPP540 P US PP540P
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Emerson W. Root
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  • My invention relates to a new variety of peach tree of the white freestone type.
  • peach trees are mainly cultivated commercially for the fruit, the chief characteristics of my improved peach tree relate to the fruit and the time of ripening compared with other white freestone types of peaches.
  • the white freestone peach has long enjoyed a good reputation and popularity with the consumers as'a high grade type of peach particularly suitable for eating as afresh fruit but it also is a good fruit for preserving and to a certain extent is a good type of shipping fruit.
  • the ripening and hence the merchandising season of the white freestone peach is of quite short duration and is mainly in the early summer, this being particularly true in California.
  • the white freestone peach of my invention is comparable to the Hale freestone yellow peach which is noted as an excellent peach for eating fresh and of a large size.
  • the pulp also has certain characteristics similar to the Hale in regard to the firmness, the good keeping qualities and is fully as juicy as the Hale.
  • peaches in Hedricks Systematic Pomology edition of 1925, pages and 131.
  • the tree is of medium size, vigorous, upright to spreading openand vase-formed. It is hardy under California conditions and may be described as productive*and as a regular bearer.
  • the trunk is of medium size and of medium smooth ness.
  • the branches are of medium size and are of medium smoothness having a brown color.
  • the leaves are of medium length and of medium thickness.
  • the glands average four in number are opposite niedium'reniform and green. Their positions are two on the petiole and two on the base of the leaf blade.
  • Flower buds may be described as hardy of medium size and of medium length. They are plump, free, and pubescent. The flowers bloom between February 25 and March 5 and may be described as early to medium. They are of medium size and pink to rosolane at the margin. The leaves average about six and one-half inches in length and one and one-half inches in width. They are medium wavy, lanceolate, acutely pointed of medium thickness and medium green. They are smooth and have a crenate margin.
  • the fruit may be described as follows. The skin is medium thick and medium tough, and semi-free. The flesh is creamy white, juicy, fine-grained and mildly subacid. The quality is very good.
  • the stone is free, medium to large, flattened, and obovate.
  • the fruit ripens about August 15 (or a little past mid-season)
  • the keeping quality and shipping quality are both good.
  • the average length of fruit is three and one-quarter inches With the greatest diameter three and one-quarter inches.
  • the fruit is slightly irregular and runs from medium to above medium. It is roundish oval and the halves are slightly unequal.
  • the cavity is medium as to depth and width. It is regular and abrupt.
  • the suture is shallow and distinct.
  • the apex is short tipped.
  • the color of the fruit is creamy white and blushed on exposed surface with a slight carmine strip.
  • the color of the pit is brown with a reddish tinge, blunt, pitted, and furrowed at the apex.
  • the use of the peach is for dessert, market, and home use.
  • the pubescence is medium as to length and thickness. In adjoining localities to where my fruit ripened on August
  • the illustration is a photograph of the fruit only of the peach tree plant.
  • Such photograph taken with the fruit resting on a horizontal surface at a substantially vertical line of camera sight illustrates the fruit in comparison with a measuring rule graduated in inches. It depicts one peach uncut and another peach severed in the diametrical plane of the suture showing one-half with the flesh exposed and with the pitretained and the other half with the pit cavity.
  • a new variety of white freestone peachtree characterized by the peach fruit when mature and ripe having a medium thick and medium tough skin, a creamy white, juicy, fine-grain,
  • the cut and open fruit asshown has a distinct white color flesh between the pit .cavity and the skin, this being substantially the same degree of whiteness as other white freestone peaches.
  • the cavity formed by the pit is of atypical reddish color as in other white freesto'ne peaches. Due to the fact that the peach when out was very juicy, the moisture produced'highlights on the half of the cut peach having the cavity exposed.

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