Origin: at Watsonville, Calif., by R.S. Bringhurst and Victor Voth, Agr. Expt. Sta., Univ. of California, Davis. Introd. in 1979. Plant patent assigned to Regents, Univ. of California, Davis. Albritton × Tufts. Tree: larger than Tioga; leaflets lighter and less yellow than those of Tioga; highly productive; as susceptible to verticillium wilt as Tioga, Tufts, and Aiko; highly susceptible to red stele (Phytophthora fragariae). Recommended for commercial production in southern California as an early, highquality, winter planting variety and as an improved summer-cropping variety for the central coast. Named for the city of Vista, San Diego County, Calif. Fruit: larger than Tioga; flesh flavor and quality equal or superior to those of Aiko, Tioga, and Tufts; more ascorbic acid than that of Tufts but less than that of Aiko; skin same color as that of Tioga, dark reddish-orange.
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