Origin: in New Brunswick, N.J., by J.H. Clark, New Jersey Agr. Expt. Sta. Introd. in 1942 under restrictions; named and released commercially in 1943. Fairfax × Aberdeen; selected in 1933; tested as N.J. 312. Tree: productive to very productive; last flowers on cluster usually set; moderately susceptible to verticillium wilt, leaf scorch, leaf spot, but resistant to powdery mildew; resistant to one type of red stele disease; susceptible to virus diseases; produces many runners; grown in the northeastern states to Wisconsin. Fruit: size medium; short blunt conic to oblate; skin rather dark red, glossy, attractive; flesh soft, mildly subacid, quality excellent; good for dessert and frozen pack; ripens in midseason to late.
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