Origin: in Palo Alto, Calif., by W.F. Wight, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Introd. in 1935. Phillips Cling × Linden; cross made in 1925; came into bearing in 1929. Tree: vigorous; productive; leaf glands globose; flower with small petals. No longer commercially planted. Fruit: large, averaging 7.6 cm in diam.; apex rounded, either with or without a short point; skin yellow, sometimes mottled red; flesh yellow, firm, fine-grained, no red at pit cavity, subacid, quality good; commercial canning clingstone; ripens before Phillips Cling, in late midseason.
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