During the examination for compliance with the criteria of distinctness, uniformity and stability for apples, pears, sour cherry, sweet cherry, apricot and peach are currently used mainly varieties of foreign origin, some of which are very old and have lost breeding and production value and, as a rule, absent in a contemporary collections of scientific institutions of Ukraine. In addition, the soil and climatic conditions of the cultivation area can affect the degree of manifestation of traits that require determination of additional standard varieties including ones for the South Steppe of Ukraine. As a result of long perennial study of varietal pool, there were identified and summarized in these theses the varieties with stable expression of certain traits that are encouraged to use as references, in particular, the growth force, the time of harvest maturity / ripening, fruit size.