US Plant Patent PP10939
Joanna Sweet
Peach tree `Joanna Sweet`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 17, 2017. 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
- PP10939
- Filed
- November 17, 1997
- Granted
- June 1, 1999
- Expires
- November 17, 2017
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS FLOYD; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GARY NEIL; ZAIGER GRANT GENE
Abstract
This new and unique variety of peach tree (Prunus persica) has the following desirable features that are outstanding in a new variety. The following features of the tree and its fruit are characterized with the tree budded on nemaguard rootstock, grown on Hanford sandy loam soil with Storie Index rating 95, in USDA hardiness zone 9, near Modesto, Calif., and with standard commercial cultural fruit growing practices, such as, pruning, thinning, spraying, irrigation, fertilization, etc.: 1. Heavy and regular production of large size fruit. 2. Fruit with a high degree of attractive red skin color. 3. Fruit with very firm flesh, good handling and shipping qualities. 4. Fruit with good, sweet, sub-acid flavor. 5. Fruit able to remain firm on the tree approximately 7 days past maturity (shipping ripe). 6. Vigorous, upright growth.
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, characterized by its large size, vigorous upright growth; and by being a regular and productive bearer of large, firm, freestone fruit with a high degree of attractive red skin color; the fruit is further characterized as having good handling and shipping qualities, good, sweet, sub-acid flavor, and in comparison to Sweet Gem Peach (U.S. Plant
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