"Royal Lady" peach tree

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of peach tree which is somewhat remotely similar to the "Elegant Lady" peach tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,399), but from which it is distinguished by producing fruit which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately Jul. 20 to Aug. 2 in the central San Joaquin Valley of California, the fruit being freestone by nature having a round shape and which further exhibits a full red coloration in shades of light red to dark red and a pleasing, very crisp yellow flesh.

Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of peach tree, what I claim as new and desire to be secured by Plant Letters Patent is: 
     
       1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree substantially as illustrated and described and which was discovered as a sport of the "Elegant Lady" peach tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,399), but from which it is distinguished and characterized principally as to novelty by producing a freestone fruit which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately Jul. 20 to Aug. 2 in the San Joaquin Valley of central California, the fruit having from a light orange-red to a darker red coloration, a flesh which is amber-yellow and of a firm and crisp texture with skin tenacious to the flesh at commercial maturity but will pull free from flesh at soft ripe maturity.