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in 1832. The variety in some manner found its way to Europe and came 

 into the hands of Ferdinand Gaillard, a nurseryman at Brignais, Rhone, 

 Prance, but without a name. Gaillard, believing it to be a new sort, 

 gave it the name Willermoz in honor of M. Willermoz, Secretary of the 

 Pomological Congress of France. Later, French pomologists decided that 

 Gaillard's peach and Early Crawford were identical. The American 

 Pomological Society put this peach on its fruit-list in 1856 under the name 

 Crawford's Early. The name has several times been varied but today 

 the variety is listed as Early Crawford. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, round-topped, often unproductive; trunk 

 thick; branches stocky, smooth, reddish-brown very lightly tinged with ash-gray; branchlets 

 with intemodes of medium length, pinkish-red intermingled with darker red, glossy, smooth, 

 glabrous, with numerous large and smaU, conspicuous, raised lenticels. 



I>eaves six and three-fourths inches long, one and one-half inches wide, folded upward 

 and recurved, oval to obovate-lanceolate, mediimi in thickness, leathery; upper surface 

 dark green, usually smooth except along the prominent midrib; lower surface light grayish- 

 green; margin finely serrate, often in two series, tipped with very fine, reddish-brown 

 glands; petiole three-eighths inch long, glandless or with one to five small, globose, greenish- 

 yellow glands variable in position. 



Flower-buds conical, heavily pubescent, free; blossoms appear in mid-season; flowers 

 pale pink, less than one inch across, well distributed; pedicels very short, thick, glabrous, 

 green; calyx-tube reddish-green, orange-colored within, obconic; calyx-lobes short, medium 

 to narrow, acute, glabrous within, pubescent without; petals oval, broadly notched near 

 the base, tapering to broad claws red ^.t the base; filaments one-fourth inch long, equal 

 to the petals in length; pistil often longer than the stamens. 



Fruit matures in early mid-season; two and one-half inches long, two and nine-six- 

 teenths inches wide, round-oval or cordate, bulged near the apex, compressed, with uneqital 

 halves; cavity deep, wide, abrupt; suture shallow, becoming deeper near the apex; apex 

 variable in shape, often with a swollen, elongated tip; color golden-yeUow, blushed with 

 dark red, splashed and mottled with deeper red; pubescence thick; skin separates from 

 the pulp; flesh deep yellow, rayed with red near the pit, juicy, tender, pleasantly sprightly, 

 highly flavored; very good in quality; stone free, one and one-half inches long, one inch 

 wide, oval or ovate, bulged along one side, mediimi plump, with small, shallow pits in the 

 surfaces; ventral suture deeply furrowed along the sides, medium in width, winged; dorsal 



suture grooved, slightly winged. 



EARLY YORK 



I. Kenrick Am. Orch. 220. 1832. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 475, 476. 1845. 3. Horticulturist 

 2:399. .1847-48. 4. Proc. Nat. Con. Fr. Gr. 37, 38, 51. 1848. 5. Hovey Fr. Am. 1:45, PI. 1851. 

 6, EJliott Fr. Book 273. 1854. 7. Hooper W. Fr. Book 221. 1857. 8. Mag. Hort. 23:518. 'hS^y. 9. Flor. 

 & Pom. 24, PI. 1862. 10. Hogg Fruit Man. 446. 1884. 11. Fulton Peach Cult. 184. 1908. 



Serrate Early York. 12. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 290 fig. 1849. 13. U. S. Pat. Of. Rpt. 334. 1856. 



York Precoce. 14. Mas Z,e Verger 7:115, 116, fig. 56. 1866-73. '5- Leroy Diet. Pom. 6:308, 309 

 fig.. 310. 1879. 



