US Plant Patent PP7918
Nectarine tree (Ruby Diamond)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 4, 2011. 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
- PP7918
- Filed
- February 4, 1991
- Granted
- July 21, 1992
- Expires
- February 4, 2011
- Assignee
- BRADFORD NORMAN G, BRADFORD LOWELL G
- 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, hardy, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described approximately the first week in July, with first picking on Jul. 4, 1990. The fruit is uniformly large in size, excellent in flavor, attractively globose in shape, freestone in type, very firm in texture, and full red in skin color. The variety was developed as a hybridized seedling from the selected seed parent of Red Diamond Nectarine (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,165), and an unnamed nectarine seedling as the selected 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, which is similar to its seed parent, Red Diamond (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,165), by producing freestone nectarines that are full red in skin color and very firm in texture, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by producing fruit that ripens 6 days later, is somewhat larger in size, is more globose in shape, and is sweeter in flavor, and by having a large blossom instead of a small blossom, and which is also similar to the Summer Grand Nectarine (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,879) by being very productive and by producing freestone nectarines that mature in July, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by producing fruit that ripens 6 days earlier and is full red in skin color over the entire fruit surface.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7918 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.