US Plant Patent PP5123
Peach tree - N.J. F-2 cultivar
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 7, 2002. 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
- PP5123
- Filed
- April 7, 1982
- Granted
- October 18, 1983
- Expires
- April 7, 2002
- Assignee
- STARK BROTHERS NURSERIES AND O
- Inventor
- BAILEY CATHERINE H; HOUGH L FREDRIC
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
A new and distinct peach variety which originated by the crossing of an unnamed New Jersey seedling No. 602903 with pollen from the Pallas variety is provided. The freestone fruit of the new variety has a highly blushed red skin and a distinctive configuration which is vertically compressed and oblate. The flesh is fine and tender and of mild and delicate flavor. The variety has exhibited resistance to common bacterial leaf spot, and the fruit buds have exhibited exceptionally good winter hardiness.
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 (a) the abundant formation of highly blushed red skinned fruit having a distinctive vertically compressed oblate configuration and freestone white flesh of mild flavor, (b) a vigorous and spreading growth habit, (c) exceptional winter hardiness of the fruit buds, and (d) improved tolerance to bacterial leaf spot.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5123 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.