overloading - Delphi: Method 'Create' hides virtual method of base - but it's right there

Question

Consider the hypothetical object hierarchy, starting with:

TFruit = class(TObject)
public
    constructor Create(Color: TColor); virtual;
end;

and its descendant:

TApple = class(TFruit)
public
    constructor Create(); overload; virtual;
    constructor Create(Color: TColor); overload; override; //deprecated. Calls other constructor - maintaining the virtual constructor chain
end;

The idea here is that I've overridden the virtual constructor of the base class, with an overload that also happens to be virtual.

Delphi complains:

Method 'Create' hides virtual method of base type 'TFruit'

Except it doesn't hide it - it's right there!

• I overrode the virtual method in the ancestor, and
• I overloaded it with another version

What's the deal?

Answer 1

Two solutions:

type
  TFruit = class(TObject)
  public
    constructor Create(Color: TColor); virtual;
  end;

  TApple = class(TFruit)
  public
    constructor Create(); reintroduce; overload;
    constructor Create(Color: TColor); overload; override;
  end;

Or:

type
  TFruit = class(TObject)
  public
    constructor Create; overload; virtual; abstract;
    constructor Create(Color: TColor); overload; virtual;
  end;

  TApple = class(TFruit)
  public
    constructor Create(); override;
    constructor Create(Color: TColor); override; 
  end;