A perennial hermaphrodite deciduous shrub. It grows 1.5-2.5m high.
Origin: in Weymouth, N.J., by F.V. Coville and O.M. Freeman, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) and the New Jersey Agr. Expt. Sta. Introd. in 1952. Stanley × G5-149 (Jersey × Pioneer); cross made in 1932; seedling raised in Washington, D.C., and selection made in 1938 in Weymouth by J.H. Clarke (then of the New Jersey station), George M. Darrow (USDA), and E.B. Morrow (North Carolina Agr. Expt. Sta.); tested as V-25. Tree: blooms late; consistently productive. Fruit: clusters loose; ripens late, about the same time as Jersey, Rubel, and Dixi, earlier than Coville and later than Berkeley; berry very large, about equal to the best varieties; scar fair; hangs well on bush.
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