Abstract: A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree characterized by a yellow fleshed, cling stone fruit, which is attractive in appearance and having excellent sugar content and flavor, and, further, having the characteristic and advantage of maturing in the early part of the late season, thereby becoming marketable at a time when comparable fruit is likely to be less available.

Abstract: The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant, named `Always A Lady`, which is characterized by its soft mauve blooms, ranging from Amaranth Rose to Roseine Purple. The blooms are usually borne one to a stem with hybrid tea form but on occasion may be produced in sprays of 3 to 5 or more. The bush is vigorous, well-branched and produces moderate to heavy quantity of blooms.

Abstract: The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant, named `Hot Lips`, which is characterized by its rich coral blooms, ranging from near Shrimp Red to near Chinese Coral to near Azalea Pink. The blooms are usually borne one to a stem with hybrid tea form but on occasion may be produced in sprays of 3 to 5 or more. The bush is vigorous, well-branched and produces moderate to heavy quantity of blooms.

Abstract: The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant, named `Ruthie`, which is characterized by its blooms of near White to near Naples Yellow with a soft blush of near Poppy Red to near Carmine on the outer margins. The blooms are usually borne one to a stem with hybrid tea form but on occasion may be produced in sprays of 3 to 5 or more. The bush is vigorous, well-branched and produces moderate to heavy quantity of very fragrant blooms.

Abstract: The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant, named `Zelda Lloyd`, which is characterized by its medium pink blooms, ranging from Carmine Rose to Carmellia, with exactly five petals and usually borne one to a stem or in sprays of 3 to 5 or more blooms. The bush is of moderate size and well-branched, producing average to heavy quantities of bloom.

Abstract: The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant, named `Christopher`, which is characterized by its medium red blooms, ranging from Blood Red to Cardinal Red. The blooms are usually borne one to a stem with hybrid tea form but on occasion may be produced in sprays of 3 to 5 or more. The bush is very vigorous, well-branched and produces moderate to heavy quantity of blooms.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of plum tree denominated varietally as "Royal Star" and which is characterized as to novelty by its large ovate shape with a blue color, a pink to red flesh color, a tight cling type stone and above average fruit quality ripening in the last week of August to the first week of September under the ecological conditions prevailing in Kingsburg in the San Joaquin Valley of California.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a nectarine tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a large size, vigorous, hardy, very productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described approximately the last week in July, with first picking on July 28, 1988. The fruit is uniformly large in size, clingstone in type, very firm making excellent quality for keeping and shipping, very crisp in texture even after 3 weeks on the tree, full dark red in skin color, and acidic but sweet in flavor. The variety was developed as a hybridized seedling from the selected seed parent, Red Diamond (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,165), and an unnamed nectarine seedling as the selected pollen parent.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of peach tree which the following unique combination of desirable features:1. A low winter chilling requirement of approximately 150 hours.2. Producing very firm fruit with good storage and shelf life.3. Fruit with attractive red skin color.4. The regular and heavy production of fruit.5. Early maturity of the fruit.6. Fruit with good flavor and eating quality.7. Vigorous and upright growth.

Abstract: A medium size hybrid chestnut tree, having an upright and widely spreading form and glossy dark green foliage with prolific, sweet scented flowers appearing after leaf out in spring; the tree being a regular and very productive bearer of extremely large, chocolate brown, very sweet and easy-to-peel nuts, the nuts ripening and falling free from the burrs in mid-September; the tree also displaying a high genetic resistance to the chestnut bark blight (Endothia parasitica), being bred from the same line of hybrid chestnut trees as the Revival Chestnut (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,537), the Heritage Chestnut (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,574), and the Carolina Chestnut (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,041), the present variety itself not showing any instance of blight infection in 12 years of growth in the orchard.