US Plant Patent PP4572
Peach cultivar
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 28, 1999. 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
- PP4572
- Filed
- March 28, 1979
- Granted
- July 15, 1980
- Expires
- March 28, 1999
- Assignee
- STARK BROTHERS NURSERIES & ORC
- Inventor
- BAILEY CATHERINE H; HOUGH L FREDRIC
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
A new and distinct peach variety which originated by the crossing of an unnamed New Jersey seedling No. 585414 with pollen from the Autumnglo variety is provided. This new variety is a late maturing yellow freestone peach variety which bears large round firm fruit having an attractive bright red skin color (as illustrated). The fruit flesh is golden yellow in color, and slow softening with a superior rich and delicious flavor. The fruit buds exhibit exceptionally good winter hardiness. Also, the variety has exhibited improved tolerance to common bacterial leaf spot disease.
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 yellow freestone peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by a strong, vigorous growth habit, the exceptional winter hardiness of the fruit buds, improved tolerance to bacterial leaf spot, and the ability to yield large round firm globose bright red colored slow softening fruit having a rich and delicious flower which commonly ripens very late with that of the Autumnglo variety and approximately 3 to 5 days after that of the Rio Oso Gem variety.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4572 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.