Flowering-fruiting peach tree

Abstract

A new and very productive variety of flowering-fruiting peach tree, bearing an abundance of ornamental double flowers of strong reddish pink color in the last weeks of winter in Southern California, followed by a heavy crop of fairly large freestone fruits, which ripen on and after mid-July. The aroma and flavor of the fruit are strong, and the flesh is fine and tender, with melting texture and orange-yellow color. The growth habit of the tree is moderately vigorous, and its chilling requirement is slightly less than "Springtime".

I claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree which combines desirable fruit-bearing qualities with attractive ornamental flowering characteristics, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by its combination of large double flowers of a medium red to deep pink coloration with from about 1 to 4 flowers per node and with the nodes relatively closely spaced, giving the tree a distinctive and highly ornamental appearance during the blooming period; large yellow-fleshed, freestone fruit of melting texture, which has a well balanced relatively strong peach flavor and a ripening period generally beginning in mid-July and continuing through early August in the San Joaquin Valley of California, said tree further having foliage which is "wavy and crinkled," corresponding to class 3 of the Meader & Blake system.