Fruit Varieties and Horticultural Digest (J Fruit Var & Hort Digest)
Volume 16 Number 1 Article 2 Pages: 11-11
Year 1961 Month 9
Title: Redtop Peach
Author: APS Citation
Abstract:
A new peach variety named 'Redtop'
was released by the U.S.D.A. in May,
1961. A cross between 'Sunhigh' and an
open-pollinated seedling of 'July Elberta',
it was grown and selected at
Fresno, California, in cooperation with
the Fresno State College Foundation,
and tested mainly in California.
A
handsome peach with unusually firm
flesh, it is a very promising fresh market
variety for long distance shipment.
The tree of 'Redtop' is vigorous, productive,
self-fertile, and seems to have
a low chilling requirement.
Both tree
and fruit are fairly susceptible to bacterial
spot.
Fruit of 'Redtop' ripen between 'Coronet'
and 'Redglobe'. It is freestone,
yellow-fleshed, not quite as large as
'Redglobe', and of high quality. 'Redtop'
fruits are almost round, with a slightly
pointed apex, and light pubescence.
It has an attractive red blush over
three-quarters of the skin surface in
California, but not as bright a red
color covering about seven-eights of
the surface at Beltsville, Maryland,
and at Fort Valley, Georgia.
Makes a
good canned and frozen product.
Information on bud wood sources
may be gotten from J.H. Weinberger,
U.S.D.A. Field Station, Fresno, California.