US Plant Patent PP9873
Snow Prince
Peach tree `Snow Prince`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 1, 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
- PP9873
- Filed
- December 1, 1995
- Granted
- April 29, 1997
- Expires
- December 1, 2015
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GARY N; ZAIGER GRANT G
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach Prunus persica tree which has the following unique combination of features that are desirable in a new variety: 1. Heavy and regular bearer of large size fruit. 2. Producing mild, sub-acid fruit with very good flavor and eating quality. 3. Fruit with firm white flesh, good handling and shipping quality. 4. Fruit with a high degree of attractive red skin color. 5. Relatively uniform ripening of the fruit. 6. Vigorous, upright growth of the tree.
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 and upright growth, and a productive and regular bearer of large, white flesh, clingstone fruit with very good flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by having firm flesh with good handling and shipping quality, having a high degree of attractive red skin color, and in comparison to the early maturing, Top Crest Peach (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,745) the new variety has white flesh instead of yellow flesh with heavier production of larger size fruit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9873 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.