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rcniform; flowers small; fruit large, round, distinctly sutured; skin pale yellowish-white, 

 with a ricli red check; flesh white, tinged at the stone, juicy, melting, vinous; ripens late 

 in August. 



Early Purple, i. Miller Card. Diet. 1752. 2. Prince Pom. Man. 1:189, 190. 1831. 

 3. Kenrick Am. Orch. 211. 1832. 



Veritable Pourpree hdtive a grande Jlenr. 4. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:16, 17, PI. 

 VIII. 1768. 



Fruhe Purp^firsehe. 5. Christ Handb. 593, 594. 1817. 



PourprSe Hdtive. 6. Poiteau Pom. Franc. i:No. 16, PI. 1846. 7. Leroy Diet. 

 Pom. 6:241 fig., 242, 243. 1879. 



Weiniger Lieblingspfirsieh. 8. Dochnahl Fahr. Obstkunde 3:203. 1858. 



Desse Hdtive. g. Mas L^ Verger 7:201, 202, fig. 99. 1866-73. 



This variety originated far back in the Eighteenth Century. According to Mas, it 

 was raised by a M. Desse, Chantecoq, vSeine, France, and passed for a long time under the 

 name Desse Hitive. Early Purple long found favor in European orchards but is not much 

 grown now, being surpassed by better sorts. It was brought to America by William Prince, 

 Flushing, New York, early in the Nineteenth Centurj' and soon became confused with 

 Early York. The true variety, however, quickly passed from cultivation and the name 

 has ever since been confused with that of Early York. Fruit medium to large, roundish, 

 flattened at the base; suture deep; color yellowish, blushed with dark red and dotted with 

 red on the shaded side; pubescence thick, fine; flesh white, stained red under the skin on 

 the side exposed to the sun, tinged with red next the pit, juicy, vinous, highly flavored, 

 melting; very good in quality; stone semi-free to free, brownish-red; ripens early. 

 Eai-ly Rareripe I. i. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 85. 1854. 



Dr. H. A. Muhlenberg, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, originated this freestone. 

 Early Rareripe II. i. Kan. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 50. 1901. 



Early Rareripe is an improvement on a seedling erroneously called Felt Rareripe, 

 which was brought to Kansas from Illinois by F. G. Barker of Salina. Fruit large, deep 

 yellow. 

 Early Red I. i. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 96. 183 1. 



Leaves with globose glands; flowers large; fruit of medium size; skin pale yellow, with 

 a red blush; flesh melting; fair in quality; ripens at the end of August. 

 Early Red n. i. Mich. Sta. Bui. 152:199. 1898. 



This Early Red originated with C. C. Engle of Paw Paw, Michigan. 

 Early Red Cling, i. Prince Caf. Fr. rr^^5 24. 1823. 2. Prince Po;;;. Man. 2:27. 1832. 



Earliest Red Cling. 3. Prince Treat. Fr. Trees 16. 1820. 



This variety is thought to have been brought to Flushing, New York, by the French. 

 The shoots are subject to mildew; flowers small. 

 Early Rose I. i. Kenrick Am. Orch. 183. 1841. 



Of foreign origin. Fruit of medivim size; red where exposed; ripens in August. 

 Early Rose U. i. Card. Mon. 22:338. 1880. 



This Early Rose is one of the so-called Spanish peaches and was found on the farm 

 of Preston Rose, Mission Valley, Texas. It is described as a medium-sized, round, ros\- 

 red fruit, with firm flesh, ripening Tune 2Sth; freestone. 



