US Plant Patent PP4865
Freestone
Freestone peach
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 10, 2000. 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
- PP4865
- Filed
- October 10, 1980
- Granted
- July 13, 1982
- Expires
- October 10, 2000
- Assignee
- ARMSTRONG NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- ARMSTRONG DAVID L
Abstract
A peach tree of the freestone class, a moderately vigorous growth habit, bearing fruit which is somewhat larger than average, generally globose in form, and with creamy white flesh, maturing in mid-August in southern California, and characterized by its good eating quality, good keeping quality, and good shipping quality.
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 peach of the freestone class, substantially as herein shown and described, and further having, in combination, the following characteristics, namely: a moderately vigorous habit of growth, being a regular and heavy bearer, bearing small non-showy salmon-pink flowers and bearing fruit in mid-August which is somewhat larger than average, white-fleshed and globose, of eating quality from good to best, and having a moderate to abundant supply of rich, sweet juice.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4865 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.