Apple tree

Abstract

A variety of apple of the Delicious strain which has dwarf characteristics, with wide angle branching, blooming as much as two weeks later than the "Starking" (unpatented variety), producing small, sweet, red apples similar to "Starking", and providing a root stock which supports ready grafting of pears for growing same to eliminate pear decline and other disorders of pear rootstocks to which this rootstock is not susceptible.

We claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct variety of apple tree, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of a dwarf resemblance to "Starking" (unpatented) Delicious, the fruit being similarly dwarf on the order of a crab apple, though having coloring resembling "Starking", the wide angle branching habit the first year as opposed to the usual mostly leafy growth of most apple varieties, late blooming, as much as sixteen days later than Rose Red, Jonathan and other similar varieties, and the very suitable use as a clonal rootstock for other apple varieties and also many pear varieties which when grown on usual pear rootstock are susceptible to pear decline and other pear disorders, to which the apple rootstock of this variety is not susceptible.