US Plant Patent PP8021

Big Jim

Nectarine tree named Big Jim

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 25, 2010. 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: PP8021
Filed: September 25, 1990
Granted: November 3, 1992
Expires: September 25, 2010

Abstract

A new and novel F2 hybrid, large size nectarine tree from "Red Jim"×"Summer Grand", bearing large fruit having yellow flesh which is red flecked to streaked most prevalently at the suture line; having very firm meaty flesh which clings to comparatively large stones at ripening which occurs at about the June 9 to about June 22; and, with a bright, nearly total red skin color. Fruit is of excellent storing, shipping and even ripening quality and can be stored on the tree until completion of final swell.

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Having thus described and illustrated my new nectarine tree, what is new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree with fruit of yellow fleshed cling stone type, substantially as herein shown and described, having a maturity period in the early spring season, having fruit of good sugar content, the fruit being large, essentially round, with deep red color over much of the exterior, particularly when fully mature, with flesh of yellow with reddish tinge, the red being more obvious around the pit and suture line.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8021 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.