US Plant Patent PP5865
Peach tree, Summer Lady
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 1, 2005. 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
- PP5865
- Filed
- March 1, 1985
- Granted
- January 27, 1987
- Expires
- March 1, 2005
- Assignee
- BURCHELL NURSERY INC
- Inventor
- YAMASHIRO HIDEO P
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach tree, denominated "Summer Lady", producing freestone fruit similar to that of the O'Henry peach tree but ripening one week to ten days earlier under the same cultural practices.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having described my new variety of peach tree, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by similarity in tree and fruit to that of the O'Henry vareity of peach tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,964), from which it is a single scaffold mutation and from which it is distinguished and characterized as to novelty by bearing fruit which ripens approximately one week to ten days earlier than fruit of the O'Henry variety and which is distinguished from the fruit of the O'Henry in being more nearly globose and by displaying less green fruit ground color and a more uniform and brighter overall red skin coloration than that of the O'Henry at maturity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5865 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.