Fruit Tree Research Station, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and

Teruo Kozono

Kitsuo Kanato

Mitsuo Omura

Yutaka Machida

Yoshihiko Sato

Isao Shimura

Ichiro Kajiura

Kanetsugu Seike

Akio Kurihara

Kazuyuki Abe

Teruo Nishida

Kazuo Kotobuki

Masao Yoshida

Masami Yamaguchi

Hidetoshi Kyotani

Osamu Kishimoto

Tatsushi Ogata

Yuri Ishizawa

Koichi Nishimura

Tsutomu Chiba

Itaru Kozaki

Kazuo Kotobuji

Disclosed is a Japanese pear tree bearing fruit with light green yellow skin, having a strong vigor, a stout shoot and a long internode, a high resistance to scab, and a high productivity. This tree produces a circular-ellipse-shaped fruit which matures early in the season, i.e., from the middle to the end of August, in the central part of the Kanto district, Japan. The fruit has a medium size and the same weight as 'Chikusui', i.e., 250 to 300 g, and a yellowish white flesh which is soft, crisp and very juicy with a high Brix, the pH of the juicy being about 4.7-4.8, and little aromatic flavor, thus having an excellent dessert quality.

Japanese pear tree 'Yasato'

Disclosed is a nectarine (Prunus persia) tree of a medium vigor and spreading, foliated with large elongated leaves, and producing uniform, medium size, round to round-elliptic shaped clingstone fruit having a yellow ground color and deep red overcolor skin, and a yellow flesh which is slightly red near the pit.

Nectarine tree `Chiyodared`

Disclosed herein is a Japanese pear tree having a moderate vigor and an easily maintained moderate spur development, a high resistance to black spot disease and a high productivity. This tree produces an oblate-shaped fruit which matures early in the season, i.e., from the start to the middle of August, in the central part of the Kanto district, Japan. The fruit has a medium size and the same weight as `Kosui`, i.e., 250 to 300 g, a yellowish brown skin, and a white flesh which is soft, crisp and very juicy with a high Brix the pH of the juice being about 5.2, a particular smell without aromatic flavor, giving an excellent dessert quality.

Japanese pear tree 'Chikusui'

Disclosed herein is a Japanese pear tree which has a moderate vigor and an easily maintained moderate spur development, is resistant to black spot disease, and as productive as `Hosui`. The tree is cross-incompatible with `Kosui` and is assumed to have an S.sub.4 S.sub.5 genotype, and has brown young leaves and white large flowers which have a pale red color at the pit at fat bud and bloom middle to late in the season and at almost the same time as `Nijisseiki`. The tree can produce an oblate-shaped fruit which matures early in the season, earlier than `Nijisseiki`, and has a normal keeping quality. The fruit has a large size which is larger than that of `Nijisseiki`, a skin which is covered partly with russet when cultivated without bagging, is at early maturity of the yellowish green color identified in the Munsel.RTM. Book of Color as follows:

Japanese pear tree

Disclosed herein is a peach tree of an early ripening cultivar which is self-fertile and productive with a low physiological fruit drop. The tree has showy and pink flowers with abundant pollen, and can produce a round elliptic, clingstone fruit with a good keeping quality, suitable for dessert. The fruit has a sturdy and attractive skin with a white ground color and a bright red blush, a melting flesh having a white color with some red pigment, a moderate firmness, moderate sweetness and a low acidity, giving a good taste.

Peach tree `Chiyohimi`

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Tsukuba, Japan

Teruo Kozono