US Plant Patent PP4335
B-475
Almond tree (1-B-475)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 31, 1997. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4335
- Filed
- October 31, 1977
- Granted
- November 28, 1978
- Expires
- October 31, 1997
- Assignee
- BURCHELL NURSERY INC
- Inventor
- ANDERSON FREDERIC W
Abstract
An almond tree which is open to dense, medium-to-small size, medium vigorous, medium in quantity of foliage, with medium size, ovate leaves having a crenate margin, and alternate, globose glands, blooms between Ne Plus Ultra and Nonpareil, and a regular and heavy producer of well-distributed oval-to-ovate nuts having a medium-to-late harvest period; the nuts--in harvest after Ne Plus Ultra but before Mission--being of medium-to-small size, soft shell, and with a relatively high percentage of kernel to nut; the variety being particularly characterized by being self-fertile and bearing heavily without pollenizers of any kind.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of almond tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which is open to dense, medium-to-small size, medium vigorous, medium in quantity of foliage, with medium size, ovate leaves having a crenate margin, and alternate, globose glands, blooms between Ne Plus Ultra and Nonpareil, and a regular and heavy producer of well-distributed oval-to-ovate nuts having a medium-to-late harvest period; the nuts--in harvest after Ne Plus Ultra but before Mission--being of medium-to-small size, soft shell, and with a relatively high percentage of kernel to nut; the variety being particularly characterized by being self-fertile and bearing heavily without pollenizers of any kind.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4335 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.