FRUIT TREES and VINES
PEACHES and NECTARINES
Arctic Supreme Peach
Two-time taste test winner. Large, white flesh, nearly freestone when fully ripe. Red over cream colored skin. Sweet and tangy, fine delicate flavor, firm texture. Peak quality reached a short while after picking. Harvest late July/early August. 700 hours. Self-fruitful. (Zaiger)
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Double Jewel Peach

Flowering/fruiting peach for home orchard and landscape. Profuse, showy, double pink flowers. Late blooming, but early harvest-late June. Large, richly flavored, yellow freestone. Self-fruitful. Pat. No. 6410. (Zaiger)



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Elberta Peach
Famous yellow freestone. Classic, rich, peach flavor: high-scoring in taste tests. Use fresh, canned, cooked. Ripe late July/early August. Self- fruitful. 800 hours.
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Q-1-8 Peach
Q-1-8 Peach
Peach leaf curl-resistant variety, tested at the WSU research station at Mt. Vernon, Washington. In the Dave Wilson Nursery orchards, the white-fleshed, semi-freestone fruit is sweet and juicy like Babcock, with a more sprightly flavor. Harvest mid to late July. Showy blossoms. 7-800 hours. Self-fruitful.
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Red Baron Peach
Flowering/fruiting. Large, juicy, firm, richly flavored yellow freestone fruit. Showy double red blossoms. Mid-July. Low chilling requirement, 250-300 hours. Self-fruitful. Pat. No. 4195.
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Rio Oso Gem Peach

Rio Oso Gem

Favorite late yellow freestone. Large, sweet, rich flavor, like J.H. Hale. Fresh/freeze. Small tree. Showy bloom. Mid-August. 800 hours. Self-fruitful.

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Snow Beauty Peach
White-fleshed taste test winner: one of the all time highest-scoring varieties in blind fruit tastings at Dave Wilson Nursery. Low acid, high sugar, tantalizing flavor. Large, very firm, attractive red skin. Harvest early to mid-July. Tested as 96.5GF330. Estimated chilling requirement 750-850 hours. Self-fruitful. Pat. No. 10175. (Zaiger)
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Zee Diamond Peach

Large, very firm, yellow clingstone, very productive. Mid-June harvest. Excellent flavor with a good balance of acid and sugar. 800 hours. Self-fruitful. Pat. No. 9673

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Arctic Blaze Nectarine
Taste test winner. One of the best of the new low acid white nectarines: rich flavor and firm texture in early season, very sweet when soft ripe. Large size, red and creamy white skin. Harvest mid to late August, after Arctic Queen white nectarine. Estimated chilling requirement 7-800 hours. Self-fruitful. Pat. No. 10174. (Zaiger)
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Arctic Jay Nectarine

Taste test winner: best of all fruits at the Dave Wilson Nursery blind fruit tasting held July 5, 1996.’ Very attractive, firm, freestone fruit is richly flavored, with a balance of acid and sugar. Ripens between Arctic Glo and Heavenly White white nectarines. 800 hours. Self-fruitful. Patent pending. (Zaiger)

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Double Delight Nectarine

Sensational fruit consistently the best-flavored yellow nectarine–plus magnificent, double pink flowers. Dark red-skinned, freestone fruit is sweet, with unusually rich flavor–very high-scoring in taste tests. Heavy bearing tree. Harvest early to mid July. 650 hours. Self-fruitful. (Zaiger)

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Fantasia Nectarine

Popular, large, yellow freestone. Early harvest fruit is firm-ripe and tangy, later harvest is sweet, with rich flavor: high-scoring in taste tests. Late July/early August. 500 hours. Self-fruitful.
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Liz’s Late Nectarine

Sprightly-sweet, intense, spicy flavor – the State of the Art in fruit breeding. Overall score of 7.5 at the August 25, 1995 Dave Wilson Nursery fruit tasting – one of the highest scores for any yellow nectarine or peach to date. Late August to early September. 600-700 hours. Self-fruitful. Pat.No. 9437. (Zaiger)

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Snow Queen Nectarine

Snow Queen

Sweet, juicy, early season white freestone. Late June harvest, 2-3 weeks ahead of Babcock peach. Estimated chilling: 250-300 hours. Self-fruitful.

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Spice Zee Nectaplum® (nectarine x plum)

The first Nectaplum® from Zaiger Hybrids. SpiceZee packs a pile of amazing fruit into an attractive tree for the home gardener. It is slightly acidic and loaded with sugar giving it a spicy sweet flavor. One can detect both Plum and Nectarine traits with ease. Along with great flavor, Spice Zee is a beautiful ornamental tree with a tremendous spring bloom followed by dark red leaf in the spring that matures to a rich green-red in late summer. This variety is self-fruitful and very productive. (Patent Pending) ____________________________________________________

Tri-Lite (Peach x Plum hybrid)

A popular and tasty variety. This white-fleshed peach/plum hybrid can be eaten firm. It has a mild, classic flavor with a wonderful plum aftertaste that makes this a unique treat. Early ripening in June. Superior quality canning clingstone.

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