US Plant Patent PP9470
Snow Fire
Peach tree `Snow Fire`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 17, 2015. 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
- PP9470
- Filed
- March 17, 1995
- Granted
- March 12, 1996
- Expires
- March 17, 2015
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GARY N; ZAIGER GRANT G
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach tree which has the following unique combination of features that are desirable in a new variety: 1. Mild, sweet, subacid fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality. 2. Heavy and regular production of fruit. 3. Fruit with a high degree of attractive red skin color. 4. Large, firm, white flesh, freestone fruit. 5. Fruit with good handling and shipping quality. 6. 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 by being a regular and productive bearer of large, firm, white flesh, freestone fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by having an attractive red skin color, having good handling and shipping quality and in comparison to Giant Babcock Peach (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,353) the fruit has firmer flesh, greater red skin color and is approximately 3 weeks later in maturity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9470 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.