US Plant Patent PP5251
Peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 28, 2002. 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
- PP5251
- Filed
- September 28, 1982
- Granted
- June 26, 1984
- Expires
- September 28, 2002
- Inventor
- DOYLE JAMES F
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
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 particularly characterized by its fruit, when fully ripe, having very firm, non-melting flesh which, in most fruit, is completely free of color, the free being further characterized by having large showy blossoms and by bearing clingstone fruit which has superior shipping and keeping qualities, which ripens approximately 20 days earlier than fruit of the Nectar Peach Tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 86), and which has an attractive skin coloration.
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, I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree characteritized by bearing clingstone fruit which ripens approximately twenty days earlier than fruit of the Nectar Peach Tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 86), having superior shipping and keeping qualities; flesh of a white or cream color (10-B-1); skin of cream ground color (17-O-1) overlaid with blush red (3-J-10) to dark red (6-K-9); and large, showy blossoms; and such tree being particularly characterized as to novelty by bearing peaches which, when fully ripe, have flesh which is very firm and non-melting and virtually completely free of color.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5251 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.