US Plant Patent PP8947
Nectarine tree (August Snow)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 31, 2014. 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
- PP8947
- Filed
- January 31, 1994
- Granted
- October 18, 1994
- Expires
- January 31, 2014
- Inventor
- BRADFORD LOWELL G; BRADFORD NORMAN G
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
The present invention relates to a nectarine tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a large size, vigorous, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described approximately the first week in August, with first picking on Aug. 1, 1993. The fruit is uniformly large in size, nonacidic in flavor, globose to slightly oblong in shape, freestone in type, firm in texture, and nearly full red in skin color. The variety was a first generation cross using Bradcrim (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,461) white flesh nectarine as the seed parent and August Red (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,363) yellow flesh nectarine as the pollen parent.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to its seed parent, the Bradcrim (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,461), by producing white flesh freestone nectarines that are nearly full red in skin color and non-acidic in flavor, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by producing fruit that ripens thirty days later, that is larger in size, and that is much firmer in texture.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8947 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.