US Plant Patent PP7953
Peach tree (Crimson Lady)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 28, 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
- PP7953
- Filed
- January 28, 1991
- Granted
- August 25, 1992
- Expires
- January 28, 2011
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 peach 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 June, with first picking on June 3, 1990. The fruit is uniformly large in size, excellent in flavor, attractively globose in shape, clingstone in type, very firm and nonmelting in texture, and almost full red in skin color. The variety was developed by crossing two unnamed peach seedlings, the seed parent having Red Diamond (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,165) nectarine as its seed parent and Springcrest (unpatented) peach as its 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 peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which most nearly resembles its grandparent, Springcrest (unpatented), by producing peaches that are large in size, heavy in production, and early maturing, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by having almost full red skin color at ripening time, by being clingstone instead of freestone in type, by having a sweeter flavor, by ripening 7 days later, and by being extremely firm and non-melting in texture.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7953 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.