Origin: in Beltsville, Md., by D.H. Scott and George M. Darrow, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Introd. in 1956. Fairland × Tennessee Shipper; raised in 1948; selected in 1949; tested as US-4194. Tree: very vigorous, producing runners freely; susceptible to leaf spot; resistant to the common race of red stele root-rot fungus; moderately productive, being most productive in narrow matted rows; tested from Pennsylvania to North Carolina and westward to Indiana and Kentucky. Suggested for trial plantings in Maryland and the middle Atlantic coast states as an early red-stele-resistant variety of about the Blakemore and Howard 17 season. Fruit: large, maintaining large average size during the picking season; shape uniform; skin vivid red, deeper than that of Blakemore, very glossy, handsome; yellow achenes about even with surface; flesh a uniform red, moderately firm, more so than Fairland and Sparkle but less so than Stelemaster; flavor subacid, very good; freezing quality very good; matures 3 to 4 days later than Midland and about with Blakemore and Howard 17.
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