US Plant Patent PP4406
Peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 2, 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
- PP4406
- Filed
- June 2, 1978
- Granted
- April 10, 1979
- Expires
- June 2, 1998
- Assignee
- CASELLA BROS SONS INC
- Inventor
- CASELLA SAMUEL J; SLAYBAUGH EARL E
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
There is disclosed a peach tree which is the result of budding from a limb sport discovered on the variety known as "M. A. Blake" (N.J. 117) characterized by its more vigorous tree habit with tough, non-brittle branches, attractive color and appearance of the fruit, substantially earlier fruit ripening than "M. A. Blake" and virtual immunity from canker and brown rot.
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 producing fruit of the yellow-fleshed, freestone type, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of a tree size and shape similar to "M. A. Blake" but a little larger in size, a very vigorous tree habit with tough branches that are not brittle, a fruit having a more attractive color, appearance and of larger size than that of "M. A. Blake" although having a general resemblance thereto, hardiness to produce regular crops when spring frosts and cold reduces crops of other varieties, an earlier fruit ripening habit, averaging about ten days earlier than "M. A. Blake", and excellent resistance to canker and brown rot.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4406 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.