Origin: in Centralia, Ill., by D.B. Perrine. Introd. in 1961. Considered to be a bud mutation of Yellow Transparent; discovered about 1930. Tree: low, spreading, crotches wide; bears annually, productive; less subject to fire blight than parent. Chimeral nature determined at the New York State Agr. Expt. Sta., Geneva; accessioned in 1948 by this station. Fruit: larger than parent; flattened; quality somewhat better than parent; ripens up to 7 days before parent; otherwise, similar to parent and Wrixparent. A periclinal cytochimera 2-2-4-4 and 2-4-4-4; selection of latter produces diploid gametes.
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