US Plant Patent PP6406
Higred
Apple tree -- Higred cultivar
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 27, 2006. 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
- PP6406
- Filed
- October 27, 1986
- Granted
- November 22, 1988
- Expires
- October 27, 2006
- Assignee
- STARK BROTHERS NURSERIES AND O
- Inventor
- HIGGINS GEORGE
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Jonathan apple tree is provided which originated as a limb mutation of the Snyder cultivar of U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,650. The new variety produces attractive red variable-sized fruit which colors approximately 10 to 14 days earlier than the fruit of the Snyder cultivar. Also, the fruit of the new variety exhibits a brighter red appearance and is formed more abundantly and more consistently than the fruit of the Super Jon cultivar of U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,086.
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 Jonathan Apple tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by (a) the formation of variable-sized red fruits which color approximately 10 to 14 days earlier than those of the Snyder cultivar of U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,650, (b) the formation of fruit having a brighter red appearance than that of the Super Jon cultivar of U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,086, and (c) the formation of fruit on a more abundant and a more consistent basis than the Super Jon cultivar of U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,086.
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