Tree large, upright-spreading, hardy, productive; trunk thick; branches stocky, smooth, reddish-brown covered with ash-gray; branchlets dull red strongly colored with olive-green, smooth, glabrous, with numerous small, conspicuous lenticels raised toward the base. Leaves five and three-fourths inches long, one and five-eighths inches wide, folded upward, oval to obovate-lanceolate; upper surface dark green, smooth or slightly rugose; lower surface light grayish-green; margin broadly crenate or coarsely serrate, tipped with dark red glands; petiole one-half inch long, glandless or with one to five small, reniform, greenish-yellow glands variable in position. Flower-buds conical, pubescent, plump, appressed; blooming season early; flowers pink, one and three-fourths inches across, well distributed; pedicels nearly sessile, glabrous, green; calyx-tube dull reddish-green, yellowish-green within, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes medium in length, narrow, acute, glabrous within, pubescent without; petals roundish-ovate, often broadly notched near the base, tapering to short, broad claws occasionally with a red 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-half inches long, two and three-eighths inches wide, roundish, bulged near the apex, compressed, with unequal halves; cavity contracted, deep, narrow, abrupt; suture shallow, becoming deep at the extremities; apex roundish, with a small, mucronate tip; color creamy-white blushed with dull red, indistinctly striped with darker red; pubescence short, thick; skin tough, separates from the pulp; flesh white, juicy, stringy, tender, melting, sweet or with some sprightliness; fair to good in quality; stone semi-free to free, one and three-eighths inches long, one inch wide, oval, plump, tapering to a short, abrupt point, bulged near the apex, contracted toward the base, with grooved, light-colored surfaces; ventral suture deeply furrowed along the sides, narrow, winged; dorsal suture winged, grooved. EARLY CRAWFORD =1.= Kenrick _Am. Orch._ 184. 1841. =2.= Hovey _Fr. Am._ =1=:29, 30, Pl. 1851. =3.= Waugh _Am. Peach Orch._ 201. 1913. _Crawford's Early Melocoton._ =4.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 490. 1845. =5.= Mas _Le Verger_ =7=:45, 46, fig. 21. 1866-73. _Crawford's Early._ =6.= Elliott _Fr. Book_ 272, 273. 1854. =7.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 211. 1856. =8.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt._ 42, 43. 1856. =9.= Leroy _Dict. Pom._ =6=:104 fig. 105. 1879. =10.= _Fulton Peach Cult._ 192, 193. 1908. _Willermoz._ =11.= Carrière _Var. Pêchers_ 76, 77. 1867. =12.= _Pom. France_ =6=: No. 10, Pl. 10. 1869. =13.= Lauche _Deut. Pom._ =VI=: No. 22, Pl. 1882. =14.= Mathieu _Nom. Pom._ 418. 1889.