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US Plant Patent PP12410

May Sweet

Peach tree named ‘May Sweet’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 21, 2019. 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.

Figure 4 of US plant patent PP12410, the photograph of May Sweet printed in the patent.
Figure 4 from US Plant Patent PP12410, 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
PP12410
Filed
May 21, 1999
Granted
February 12, 2002
Expires
May 21, 2019
Inventor
ZAIGER CHRIS FLOYD; ZAIGER GARY NEIL; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GRANT GENE

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of peach tree ( Prunus persica ); the features of the tree and its fruit are characterized with the tree budded on Nemaguard Rootstock (non-patented), 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 and fertilization. The tree consists of the following unique combination of desirable features that are outstanding in a new variety: 1. Fruit ripening in the early maturity season. 2. Fruit with firm flesh and good handling and shipping quality. 3 Mild, sweet, sub-acid fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality. 4. Fruit with a high degree of attractive red skin color. 5. Relatively uniform fruit throughout the tree. 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, and upright growth; being a regular and productive bearer of medium to large, early maturing, yellow flesh, sweet, sub-acid fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by having an attractive red skin color, firm flesh with good handling and shipping quality, being relatively uniform in size throughout the tree; and, in comparison to the sub-acid yellow flesh Sweet Gem Peach (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,952), the

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