Nectarine tree

Abstract

An improved nectarine tree originating as a bud mutation of Stark "Red Gold". This new variety produces freestone fruit the skin of which is a full deep red when fully ripe and which is mottled with yellow in the ripening stages, full ripeness occurring some two to three days earlier than the fruit of the parent variety.

I claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree similar to its parent Stark "Red Gold" except for the darker redder color of the fruit skin and the slightly earlier maturation of the fruit, together with the tendency for the leaves to be slightly lighter in color than those of the parent and slightly more folded in form as shown and described.