the present discoveryrelates to a new and distinct variety of peach tree, originating as a sport of the well known variety Burbanks July Elberta.
This known varietyhas proved to be one of the most popular and valued of yellowfieshed, freestone peaches, because of the excellence of its uniform-sized fruit, which colors early and completely.
the new bud sport variety herein describedis substantially identical with its parent, when grown under comparable conditions, as to all dominant characteristics, excepting only as to its ripening season. This new peach ripens approximately eighteen days before Burbanks July Elberta (Pl. Pat. No. 15).
Dates of first and last pickingJuly 13th-July 20th, at Atlas, in the county of Pike, and State of Illinois.
TrunkMedium stocky; medium smooth.
LeavesLength5 inches; width1 inches. Medium large; oval; acutely pointed; medium thick; rugose.
FleshCOZor.-Deep Chrome, Plate lII, Color 17, Tone b. Mottled with Scarlet Red, Plate 1, Color 3, toward base. Surface of pit cavity Pink.
a new and distinct variety of peach treecharacterized as to novelty (by its early ripening season, approximately eighteen days before its parent variety, substantially as described.
