Origin: in St. Petersburg, Fla., on the farm of Martin Campas. lntrod. in 1935 by Stanley Johnston, Michigan Agr. Expt. Sta., South Haven, Mich. Parentage unknown; discovered in 1923 by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, which propagated and distributed trees for trial purposes to many experiment stations; it proved of sufficient value for canning in comparison with Kieffer at the Michigan Sta. to warrant its introduction and naming. Tree: high degree resistance to fire blight. Fruit: size medium; skin yellow, somewhat russeted; flesh with fewer grit cells, whiter, and softer than Kieffer, which it resembles; ripens late.
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