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US Plant Patent PP12896

August Princess

Peach tree named ‘August Princess’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 27, 2021. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 22, 2021. This patent earned 5 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP12896, the photograph of August Princess printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP12896, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP12896
Filed
March 22, 2001
Granted
August 27, 2002
Expires
March 27, 2021
Inventor
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN

Abstract

The present invention relates to a peach tree, Prunus persica, and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a large size, vigorous, hardy, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described approximately the third week in August, with first picking on Aug. 20, 2000. The fruit is uniformly large in size, very good in flavor, globose in shape, clingstone in type, firm in texture, white in flesh color, and mostly red in skin color. The variety was developed as a first generation cross using August Red (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,363) yellow flesh nectarine as the selected seed parent and White Princess (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,515) peach as the selected pollen parent.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to its pollen parent, White Princess (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,515) peach, by producing peaches that are white in flesh color, firm in texture, subacid and sweet in flavor, and mostly red in skin color, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by producing fruit that is clingstone instead of freestone, that is larger in size, and that matures about ten days later.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12896 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.