US Plant Patent PP8439
Scarlet Snow
Peach tree "Scarlet Snow"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 8, 2013. 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
- PP8439
- Filed
- January 8, 1993
- Granted
- October 26, 1993
- Expires
- January 8, 2013
- Assignee
- GARDNER LEITH M, ZAIGER CHRIS F, ZAIGER GARY N, ZAIGER GRANT G
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GARY N; ZAIGER GRANT G
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach tree with the following combination of unique features that are desirable in a new variety. 1. Heavy and regular production of fruit. 2. Production of very firm, white flesh fruit with good handling and shipping quality. 3. Fruit that will stay firm on the three 7 to 10 days after maturity (shipping ripe). 4. Fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality. 5. Late maturity of white flesh fruit. 6. Fruit with an attractive red skin blush. 7. Vigorous upright growth.
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, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its large size, vigorous, upright growth and being a regular and productive bearer of large, late maturing, white flesh, freestone fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by having very firm flesh, good handling and shipping quality and having a white skin ground color overspread with an attractive red blush.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8439 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.