US Plant Patent PP9938
Snow Dance
Peach tree "Snow Dance"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 25, 2016. 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
- PP9938
- Filed
- March 25, 1996
- Granted
- July 1, 1997
- Expires
- March 25, 2016
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS FLOYD; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GARY NEIL; ZAIGER GRANT GENE
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach, Prunus persica, tree; its novelty consists of the following unique combination of desirable features that are outstanding in a new variety: 1. Early maturity of large size fruit. 2. Fruit with good flavor and eating quality. 3. Heavy and regular production of fruit. 4. Fruit with a high degree of attractive red skin color. 5. Fruit with firm flesh, good handling and shipping quality. 6. The ability of the fruit to hold firm on the tree 4 to 5 days after maturity (shipping ripe). 7. Vigorous, upright growth habit.
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, characterized by its large size, vigorous, upright growth and being a productive and regular bearer of large, firm, white flesh, clingstone fruit with a mild, sub-acid, sweet flavor with good eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by having good handling and shipping quality, holding firm on the tree 4 to 5 days after maturity and, in comparison to the white flesh Sugar May Peach (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,034), the fruit is approximately 13 days earlier in maturity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9938 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.