Origin: in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada, by Matthew James Johnson. Introd. about 1950 by Kellogg Nursery Co., Three Rivers, Mich. Beaderarena × Howard 17; sibling of Nectarena; selected about 1940. Tree: Fruit: skin dark red; sometimes rough and irregular in shape; flesh fairly firm; ripens in midseason; fine for freezing, quality fair for commercial processing and for the home garden. Apparently this variety is neither of the Jumbo varieties given in The Small Fruits of New York by U.P. Hedrick, 1925.
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