Origin: in South Haven, Mich., by Stanley Johnston and J.E. Moulton, Michigan Agr. Expt. Sta. Introd. in 1961. P.I. 35201 × New Jersey 196; cross made in 1951 by New Jersey Agr. Expt. Sta.; selected at South Haven Expt. Sta. in 1957; tested as SH 382. Tree: vigorous; productive; fruit buds unusually hardy; flowers very frost resistant. Fruit: medium large; nearly round; skin golden with some blush where exposed to sun, pubescence short, nearly unnoticeable; flesh orange yellow, very firm, texture fine-grained; pit small, nonmelting clingstone; ripens about with Ambergem or 10 to 12 days before Elberta.
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