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US Plant Patent PP12570

Snow Princess

Peach tree named ‘Snow Princess’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 27, 2020. 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 PP12570, the photograph of Snow Princess printed in the patent.
Figure 4 from US Plant Patent PP12570, 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
PP12570
Filed
November 27, 2000
Granted
April 23, 2002
Expires
November 27, 2020
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 medium size, vigorous, hardy, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described approximately the third week in July, with first picking on Jul. 20, 2000. The fruit is uniformly large in size, very good in flavor, globose in shape, freestone 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 Diamond Princess (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,066) yellow flesh peach as the selected seed parent and an unnamed white flesh 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 White Princess (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,515) peach by producing freestone peaches that are white in flesh color, subacid and sweet in flavor, and mostly red in skin color, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by blooming about ten days earlier, by having reniform instead of globose glands, and by producing fruit that is much larger in size and that matures about three weeks earlier.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12570 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.