US Plant Patent PP7069

Nancy

Peach tree named Lady Nancy

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 13, 2009. 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: PP7069
Filed: January 13, 1989
Granted: December 12, 1989
Expires: January 13, 2009

Abstract

A new peach tree variety which originated as a natural limb mutation of the cultivar `Jerseyqueen`, producing late maturing, large, globose to ovate, very firm fruit, having a strong red skin color, with white flesh and a yellow suture line just under the skin, long storage life, slow softening flesh, the tree being large, very vigorous, and moderately productive.

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 herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of large size, very vigorous, open, spreading, vase shaped, regular bearing tree, producing freestone fruit having white flesh with a yellow suture line, moderate winter hardiness and greater firmness than other white peaches, providing excellent shipping quality, superior flavor and earlier ripening than the variety `Rio Oso Gem`.

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