US Plant Patent PP6229
Early Maycrest
Peach tree, "Early Maycrest"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 11, 2006. 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
- PP6229
- Filed
- July 11, 1986
- Granted
- July 26, 1988
- Expires
- July 11, 2006
- Inventor
- TOEWS RONALD G
Abstract
A new and distinct Peach Tree denominated varietally as "Early Maycrest" generally resembling the Maycrest Peach Tree, U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,064, but bearing a freestone fruit having a yellow flesh and which is mature for harvesting approximately May 12 through May 16, earlier than that of the Maycrest Peach Tree.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of Peach Tree, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree substantially as illustrated and described which is characterized by bearing a freestone fruit having a yellow flesh and by its general resemblance to the Maycrest Peach Tree, U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,064, but from which it is distinguished by its bearing fruit which matures for harvesting approximately May 12 through May 16, earlier than that of the Maycrest Peach Tree, and by having a skin color more deeply colored than the Maycrest and having less pubescence than the Maycrest.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6229 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.