US Plant Patent PP8949
Elliott
Nectarine tree -- Elliott cultivar
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 19, 2013. 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
- PP8949
- Filed
- November 19, 1993
- Granted
- October 18, 1994
- Expires
- November 19, 2013
- Assignee
- STARK BROTHERS NURSERIES AND O
- Inventor
- ELLIOTT BILL K
Abstract
The new nectarine cultivar originated as a limb mutation of unknown causation on a tree present in a young orchard of the N.J. 260 peach cultivar (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,572). The new cultivar is substantially similar to the N.J. 260 cultivar with the exception that the fruit is that of a nectarine and lacks pubescence. The fruit of the new cultivar commonly ripens a few days earlier than the late-ripening N.J. 260 cultivar, and its fruit commonly is slightly smaller than that of the N.J. 260 cultivar. The new cultivar generally can be grown in the northern fruit production areas of the United States where the N.J. 260 cultivar is grown.
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 late-season nectarine cultivar, having the following combination of characteristics: (a) forms fruit of good flavor and texture that is substantially similar to that of the N.J. 260 cultivar with the exception that it is lacking in pubescence, (b) forms fruit that commonly matures approximately 3 to 5 days earlier than that of the N.J. 260 cultivar, (c) forms fruit that commonly is slightly smaller than that of the N.J. 260 cultivar, and (d) exhibits an overall growth habit that is substantially similar to that of the N.J. 260 cultivar; substantially as herein shown and described.
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