H.p. Metzler & Sons

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

Metzler Investments

Agri Sun Nursery L.l.c.

Corrin Family Trust

Corrin; Allan A.

Metzler Investments and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

Metzler Investments and Company

Thomas O Chamberlin, Sr

A new and distinct late-season cultivar of peach tree (i.e., Prunus persica) is provided that forms attractive substantially round fruit bearing a very firm flesh. When fully mature, the external surface of the fruit is almost full red. The fruit flesh has a pleasing mild to sweet low acid flavor and is yellow with some red coloration at the pit cavity and streaked throughout the flesh. The fruit also keeps and ships well particularly in view of its inherently very firm consistency. The tree additionally displays a vigorous growth habit.

Peach tree named `88-17`

A new and distinct variety of plum tree which is distinguished by producing fruit which are mature for harvesting and shipment approximately June 16 to June 20 in the San Joaquin Valley of central California and wherein the fruit is small and round with a crisp and firm flesh which does not bruise easily and having a bright yellow-green skin coloration.

Plum tree named `Yellow #503`

A new and distinct variety of peach tree which is distinguished by producing free stone fruit which are mature for harvesting and shipment approximately September 10 to September 15 in the San Joaquin Valley of central California. The fruit are large, round and very firm and do not bruise easily. The flesh is crisp with a clear yellow coloration.

Peach tree named `92-287`

A new and distinct cultivar of plum tree (i.e., Prunus domestica) is provided that forms in abundance attractive dark red mature fruit that is more long than round. The fruit flesh possesses a crisp firmness and is of a nicely contrasting light yellow coloration. The fruit base well resists cracking at the suture line and the fruit commonly is readly for harvest at approximately August 10.sup.th to 20.sup.th at Fresno, Calif. The new cultivar is not self-fruiting and requires another plum tree for fertilization. The fruit crop formed on the new cultivar possesses mild to sweet taste, handles well, keeps well, and ships well.

Plum tree named `315-80-67`

A new and distinct variety of plum tree which is distinguished by producing fruit which are mature for harvesting and shipment approximately September 15 to September 20 in the San Joaquin Valley of central California and wherein the fruit is large and round with a crisp and firm flesh which does not bruise easily and having a bright red skin coloration.

`September King` plum tree

A new and distinct variety of plum tree which produces fruit which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately September 20 to September 25 in the central San Joaquin Valley of Calif. which is very large for plum fruit, which is freestone by nature and which further exhibits a distinctive red and yellow coloration is very firm having very good storage and handling attributes.

`October Sun` plum tree

A new and distinct variety of peach tree which produces fruit which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately August 20 to August 25 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.

`Red Sun` peach tree

A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree denominated varietally as 'Harvest Sun' and which is somewhat similar in its date of harvesting with the fruit produced by the Ito et al. nectarine tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,518) but which is distinguished therefrom and characterized principally as to novelty by producing freestone fruit which have an attractive skin color and a yellow colored flesh, the subject variety maturing for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately August 20 through August 25 in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California.

Nectarine tree, Harvest Sun

A new and distinct variety of peach tree which is characterized by a date of maturity of approximately May 20 to May 25 under the ecological conditions prevailing at Del Rey, Calif., in the central part of the San Joaquin Valley of California, and which further is distinguished as to novelty by producing fruit which have a noteworthy flavor and desirable handling characteristics.

Peach tree 'May Sun'

A new and distinct variety of plum tree which is characterized by a date of maturity for harvesting and shipment of approximately June 15 through June 20 under the ecological conditions prevailing at Del Rey, Calif., the subject variety further distinguished as to novelty by producing a black plum which has a tough skin, a firm yellow colored flesh and exceptional storage and shipping characteristics.

Plum tree, 'Del Rey Sun'

A new and distinct variety of plum tree which is somewhat similar to the Roysum Plum Tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,619) from which it was derived as a sport, but from which it is distinguished by producing a fruit which ripens several weeks earlier than the Roysum Plum Tree and which is not self-fruiting and has a flesh which is a moderate orange-yellow in color and has a distinctive flavor.

Plum tree, 'Scarlet Sun'

A plum tree broadly characterized by producing fruit which has a Black skin color and firm, Deep Orange Yellow colored flesh and whose harvesting date is September 6 through September 10 at Del Rey, Calif.

Plum tree, 'Ebony Sun'

A new and distinct variety of plum tree which is somewhat similar to the Kelsey Plum Tree (unpatented), with which it is generally similar to physical characteristics but from which it is distinguished by bearing a Medium Green colored fruit with a yellow flesh which matures for harvesting approximately three weeks later than the Kelsey Plum Tree.

Plum tree, 'Anna Sun'

A new and distinct variety of plum tree which is characterized by bearing fruit which has a black skin color and nearly white flesh, the fruit having exceptional handling and cold storage characteristics.

Plum tree, Midnight Sun

A new and distinct variety of peach tree which is characterized by fruit which is freestone in nature and has a flesh which is crisp and bright color having a skin which is of medium thickness and tenacious to flesh which makes the subject variety an exceptional peach to handle and ship.

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Visalia, CA, United States of America

Thomas O Chamberlin, Sr