Flower-buds small, short, conical, pubescent, plump, free; blossoms appear in mid-season; flowers pink, one and one-half inches across, well distributed, usually in twos; pedicels short, thick, glabrous, green; calyx-tube dull reddish-green, orange-colored within, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes short, broad, obtuse, glabrous within, slightly pubescent without; petals round-ovate, tapering to short, broad claws red at the base; filaments one-half inch long, shorter than the petals; pistil pubescent at the ovary, equal to the stamens in length. Fruit matures early; two and one-fourth inches long, two and one-half inches wide, round-oblate, slightly compressed; cavity deep, wide, abrupt, with tender skin; suture shallow, becoming deeper at the extremities; apex roundish or flattened, with mucronate tip variable in size; color deep orange-yellow, blushed with dark red, indistinctly splashed and mottled; pubescence heavy; skin thin, tender, adherent to the pulp; flesh yellow, tinged with red near the pit, juicy, stringy, tender, melting, sweet but sprightly; good in quality; stone semi-free to free, one and one-fourth inches long, seven-eighths inch wide, oval to obovate, flattened at the base, tapering to a short point, with grooved surfaces; ventral suture deeply grooved along the sides, wide; dorsal suture a deep, wide groove. ALEXANDER =1.= _Cult. & Count. Gent._ =38=:598. 1873. =2.= _Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt._ 263, 264. 1874. =3.= _Gard. Mon._ =17=:367, 368. 1875. =4.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 28. 1877. =5.= _Gard. Mon._ =19=:147, 303. 1877. =6.= Hogg _Fruit Man._ 436. 1884. =7.= _Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt._ 424. 1886. =8.= _Tex. Sta. Bul._ =39=:809, figs. 5 & 9. 1896. =9.= _Ont. Fr. Exp. Sta. Rpt._ =6=:21 fig. 1899. =10.= Fulton _Peach Cult._ 173. 1908. =11.= Waugh _Am. Peach Orch._ 198. 1913. =12.= _U. S. D. A. Plant Immigrants_ =117=:958. 1916. _Alexander's Early._ =13.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt._ 75, 76. 1873. =14.= _Horticulturist_ =28=:224. 1873.