Almond tree ("Wood Colony")

Abstract

An almond tree which is of medium size, medium vigor, open, and spreading; foliated in medium quantity with medium size, lanceolate, abruptly pointed leaves having a finely serrate margin and globose glands; blooms late and heavily with white flowers; and is a regular and productive bearer of a heavy, well-set, late-harvesting crop of medium size nuts having a relatively large, elongated, flat, sweet kernel of good quality.

It is claimed: 
     
       1. A new and distinct variety of almond tree, substantially as illustrated and described, particularly characterized by relatively small size and slow growth, by a sturdy scaffold structure with many nut-bearing limbs and spur growth about the scaffold limbs, by minimal sucker growth interior of the tree, by blooming and harvesting after the Nonpareil, by excellent pollinization of other varieties such as the Nonpareil and Carmel, by bearing nuts which have minimal pre-drop at dehiscence but easily harvest and hull, most nuts breaking from the hull at harvest, and the nuts both as to the shell and kernel size being similar to the Ne Plus, and the shell being relatively soft and similar to the Carmel.