US Plant Patent PP9883
Spring Snow
Peach tree `Spring Snow`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 6, 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
- PP9883
- Filed
- December 6, 1995
- Granted
- May 6, 1997
- Expires
- December 6, 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, its novelty consists of the following unique combination of desirable features: 1. Heavy and regular bearer of white flesh, clingstone fruit. 2. Fruit with very good flavor and eating quality. 3. Fruit with firm flesh, good storage and shipping quality. 4. Fruit having a high degree of attractive red skin color. 5. Early maturity of large size fruit. 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 being 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 ripening in the early maturity season, approximately one week before the white flesh Peach Sugar May (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,034).
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