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US Plant Patent PP6410

Double Jewel

Peach tree ("Double Jewel")

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 20, 2007. 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
PP6410
Filed
January 20, 1987
Granted
November 22, 1988
Expires
January 20, 2007
Inventor
ZAIGER CHRIS F; ZAIGER GARY N; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GRANT G

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of peach tree which is of large size, vigorous upright growth and bearing large size, attractive, double pink flowers in the spring, giving the appearance of a flowering type ornamental tree but being a productive and regular bearer of large size, yellow flesh, freestone fruit with good eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by having firm flesh, a yellow ground color which is overspread with an attractive red skin color.

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 as illustrated and described, characterized by its large size, vigorous, upright growth and bearing large, showy, double, pink flowers in the spring giving the effect of an ornamental flowering tree; the tree is further characterized by being a regular and productive bearer of large, firm, yellow flesh, freestone fruit with good eating quality and attractive red skin color.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6410 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.