US Plant Patent PP8498

Bradgreen

Plum tree (Bradgreen)

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 28, 2012. 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: PP8498
Filed: December 28, 1992
Granted: December 14, 1993
Expires: December 28, 2012
Assignee: BRADFORD NORMAN G, BRADFORD LOWELL G
Inventor: BRADFORD LOWELL G; BRADFORD NORMAN G

Abstract

The present invention relates to a plum tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium size, vigorous, and medium productive tree, which requires cross pollinization. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in mid August, with first picking on Aug. 3, 1992, and the last picking on Aug. 18, 1992. The fruit is uniformly medium in size, clingstone in type, shiny green in skin color, attractively oblate in shape, exceptionally sweet in flavor, very crisp in texture, and excellent in keeping and shipping quality. The variety was developed as a second generation open pollinated seedling of Black Beaut (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,617).

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 plum tree, substantially as illustrated and described, broadly characterized by a medium size, vigorous, and medium productive tree, which requires cross pollinization to produce late season fruit that is similar to that of Kelsey (unpatented) by being green in skin color, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by producing fruit that matures two to three weeks later, that is firmer and crisper in texture, that is substantially sweeter in flavor, and that has a perfectly rounded apex, instead of a protruding tip.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8498 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.