Darrow

Orig. in Beltsville, Md. Introd. in 1965. F-72 × Bluecrop; cross made in 1949 by G.M. Darrow, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA), Beltsville; selected by him in 1955; evaluated and named by D.H. Scott and J.N. Moore, USDA, Beltsville, and by H.H. Bowen and L.F. Hough, New Jersey Agr. Expt. Sta., New Brunswick; tested as G-71. <b>Fruit:</b> duster medium, attractive; berry as large as, to larger than, Coville; skin light blue; flesh firm, aromatic, highly flavored, tart to mildly tart depending on maturity; neither drops nor cracks during wet weather; scar medium; ripens about with Coville, which it resembles. <b>Bush:</b> erect; vigorous; consistently productive, more so than Coville.