This inventionrelates to a new and distinctive variety of freestone peach of the late maturing or ripening class.
the parentage of the treeis not exactly known but its reproduction by applicant was from what was apparently a wild sport, which wild sport, since said reproduction, has died from natural causes.
Characteristics of the treeare that its rate or" growth and vigor are about the average of freestone peaches and the vertical shoots which are formed are not extremely long and slender.
the lateral twigsform rather wide angles with the vertical branches and there is very little tendency for delayed foliage.
This treeis one of the last varieties to lose its leaves and has been noted to hold the green leaves past the mid dle of December.
the leavesdo not show a great deal of red or yellow color before falling.
the blossomsare not of the showy type.
the fruitis very tightly attached to the tree, except for the fact that it is a freestone peach, i. e., where the pit is easily removed from the halves when the fruit is halved, the flesh of the fruit in its color and depth of color and the firmness of the texture of the flesh more nearly resembles a peach of the clingstone type.
Figure 2illustrates a halved peach with the pit embedded in one of the halves.
Figure 1the closest approximation to the red of the peach compares with Plate 44, L-l.
the greenish yellow of the outside of the peachcompares with Plate 11, L-2, while the orange yellow compares with Plate 10, L-4.
the inside of the peach shown on the color print, Figure 2shows the lighter yellow part comparing with Plate 10, L-5, while the deep yellow part of the peach compares with Plate 10, L-7.
the red of the inside of the peachis approximately like Plate 44, L-2.
the freestone peach variety herein describedcharacterized by its late date of ripening normally falling between November 20 to December 15; unequal halves in the plane of suture of the pit, its yellow-green coloring usually having a slight redness at the blossom end shading over a portion of one of the halves when ripe, the fine grain and deep yellow of its flesh when ripe.
