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US Plant Patent PP10810

Sierra Gem

Peach tree named `Sierra Gem`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 3, 2017. 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
PP10810
Filed
September 3, 1997
Granted
March 2, 1999
Expires
September 3, 2017
Inventor
TOEWS RON

Abstract

A new and distinctive variety of peach tree is described and which is a chance sport of a `Fancy Lady` peach tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,023), but which is distinguishable therefrom and, characterized principally as to novelty by producing fruit which are ripe for harvesting and shipment some seven days earlier than `Fancy Lady` peach tree at the same geographical location.

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, which I claim as new and desire to be secured by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinctive variety of peach tree substantially as illustrated and described and which is characterized as to novely by producing a yellow, freestone fruit which is mature for commerical harvesting and shipment approximately Jun. 12-16 under the environmental conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California, and which fruit further has a distinctive surface color and a pleasing flavor.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10810 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.