Filter cling peach

Abstract

A peach tree which is of large size, open density, vigorous, hardy, upright to spreading-upright, vigorous upright shoots foliated with medium to large size, lanceolate leaves, having acuminate tips, irregular broad crenate margins, mostly globose and occasionally oval and reniform glands which are medium in size, and the stipules are average, light shiny green in color, darkening with age, and early-deciduous with most falling early in the season, blooms abundantly in season with other varieties of peach trees with a hardy, medium size bud which is conical in shape and remaining slightly cupped inwards even at full expansion, pale pink medium flowers, and a regular productive bearer of a heavy, well set crop of medium to large, uniform, somewhat variably formed, very early ripening canning clingstone fruit having light orange red to a darker lacquer red color skin with a light red blush covering 10 percent to 60 percent of the fruit surface varying from a washed pattern to a mottled and dappled spotted pattern, and bright yellow flesh, becoming slightly darker near the stone, and no red coloration is present under the skin surface. The fruit ripens substantially earlier than the earliest commercial variety presently grown, has excellent canned appearance and quality and may now be the earliest volume canning peach variety, allowing earlier opening of the canneries (by approximately two weeks), thus extending the canneries' season.

We claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct extra-early season variety of a clingstone peach tree having flesh of the yellow variety and substantially as herein shown and described, having firm, fine non-melting flesh texture, the fruit having a sweet, well balanced, rich flavor, being of medium to larger size, light orange-red to a darker lacquer red in color with a light red blush present from 10 percent to 60 percent of the fruit surface, and by having a desirable symmetrical shape, where the bloom density is greater, the fruit size is larger and the peach ripens substantially before other existing commercial varieties, typically in late June to early July and has an excellent appearance and quality when canned.