US Plant Patent PP4399
Peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 20, 1998. 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
- PP4399
- Filed
- March 20, 1978
- Granted
- March 20, 1979
- Expires
- March 20, 1998
- Inventor
- MERRILL GRANT; MERRILL EXECUTRIX BY LUCILLE B
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, and for its era that is ordinary rather than an omission. Before about 1980, breeders frequently patented a plant without giving it a cultivar name at all — the grant identified it by its number, its parentage and a written description of the flower and foliage. Most plant patents from the 1930s to the 1970s have no name in them.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A peach tree which is of medium size and vigor, upright to spreading, vase formed, foliated with medium size, lanceolate leaves having a crenate to finely serrate margin, short petiole, and small, opposite, reniform glands, blooms with large, non-showy, rosy red flowers which are broad ovate to nearly round, and a regular and productive bearer of large to medium size, uniform, symmetrical, globose, mid-season, freestone fruit having yellow skin blushed with red, and yellow flesh, the surface of the pit cavity being a bright red.
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, particularly characterized by its fruit being similar in shape to the July Lady, but having close resemblance in skin and flesh color, and in firmness of the flesh, to the Early O'Henry; the harvest period of the present variety being between said July Lady and Early O'Henry.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4399 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.