US Plant Patent PP7065

Artic Gem

Peach tree "Artic Gem"

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 23, 2008. 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: PP7065
Filed: December 23, 1988
Granted: December 5, 1989
Expires: December 23, 2008

Abstract

The new and distinct variety of peach tree has the following unique combination of desirable features: 1. Vigorous upright growth. 2. Heavy and regular production. 3. Fruit with firm white flesh. 4. Fruit with a high degree of attractive red skin color. 5. Fruit with good flavor and eating quality. 6. Large fruit size, relatively uniform in size throughout the tree.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

The following is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree substantially as illustrated and described, which is of large size, vigorous, upright growth and a regular and productive bearer of large, firm, white flesh, freestone fruit with good flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized in comparison to Giant Babcock Peach (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,353) as having firmer white flesh and greater shipping and storage quality, a higher degree of attractive red skin color and maturing 5 to 6 days later.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7065 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.