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US Plant Patent PP6940

Lady Lou

Peach tree, Lady Lou

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 29, 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
PP6940
Filed
August 29, 1988
Granted
July 25, 1989
Expires
August 29, 2008

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of Peach Tree, denominated varietally as "Lady Lou" which is somewhat similar to the June Lady Peach Tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,022) with which it is most closely related but which is distinguished therefrom and characterized as to novelty by producing fruit which are mature for commercial harvesting approximately May 25 through June 5 in Fresno County, Calif., the subject variety maturing for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately ten days earlier than that of the June Lady 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 is: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree to be denominated varietally as "Lady Lou" substantially as illustrated and described and which is characterized principally as to novelty by its production of fruit which are somewhat similar in their overall appearance to the fruit produced by the June Lady Peach Tree, (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,022) from which it was derived as a chance scaffold mutation but which is distinguished therefrom by producing fruit which are ripe for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately ten days earlier than the fruit produced by the June Lady Peach Tree.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6940 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.