Nectarine tree -- `Pollok` cultivar

Abstract

A new and distinct nectarine tree named Pollok is provided. The new cultivar originated from an open-pollinated peach seed of unknown parentage that was planted by the originator during 1978 or 1979. The new variety is a consistent producer of attractive moderately large freestone fruit with a high degree of bright red skin coloration which ripens late in the commercial nectarine harvest season of the Eastern United States. Firm highly-flavored moderately acidic yellow fruit flesh of excellent quality is formed having only a slight amount of red tinging. The growth habit is moderately vigorous. The firmness of the fruit flesh renders it well amenable for shipment to consumers.

I claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct nectarine cultivar having the following combination of characteristics: (a) consistently forms attractive late-maturing fruit having a moderately large size wherein approximately 60 to 90 percent of the skin is bright red in coloration at the time of harvest,   (b) forms a firm highly-flavored yellow freestone fruit flesh of excellent quality having only a slight amount of red tinging,   (c) exhibits a moderately vigorous growth habit, and   (d) exhibits cold hardiness, resistance to bacterial leafspot, and resistance to trunk canker that is at least as great as that exhibited by the Redgold and Sunglo cultivars; substantially as herein shown and described.