Origin: in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada, by W. Lowden, Lowden's Better Plants & Seeds. Lowden × a very late unnamed black seedling; cross made in 1956; selected in 1959; introd. in 1975. U. S. plant patent 3634. Tree: 7 to 8 ft high; upright; canes purplish, stout; hardy; vigor moderate, uniform; productive; does not sucker; propagated by tip layering. Resistant to anthracnose. Fruit: purple; medium size, long conic; cluster size medium to large; firm, seeds very small, flavor more like reds than purples or blacks, sweeter than most other purples, good for pickyour-own operations; ripens very late.
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