TREE'S STRANGE YIELD
THREE DISTINCT FRUITS [from our own correspondent] CAPETOWN. March. 3 A fruit grower at Van Reenan, Transvaal, has discovered in his orchard a single tree bearing three distinct kinds of fruit. The tree is an old plumcot and until recent years bore regular and plentiful yearly crops of plumcots —a cross between a plum and an apricot. Two years ago the tree fell over with dry rot and was thought to be dead. A few months later it was found to have sent up a couple of shoots, which seemed to be a peach, and were left "just to see what would happen." These have now developed into sturdy branches, which carried a good show of blossom, of a different variety from any seen before. The fruit has now matured, and one branch is found to be carrying plumcots, wliile the other carries a mixed load of peaches and nectarines! Such a curiosity has never been seen here before. Some of the fruits are "twins," one section of which' is a nectarine and the other a. peach. The fruit is all true to type and the flavour particularly fine.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22388, 7 April 1936, Page 7
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