Leaves six and three-fourths inches long, one and one-half inches wide, folded upward and recurved, oval to obovate-lanceolate, medium 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 at 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-sixteenths inches wide, round-oval or cordate, bulged near the apex, compressed, with unequal halves; cavity deep, wide, abrupt; suture shallow, becoming deeper near the apex; apex variable in shape, often with a swollen, elongated tip; color golden-yellow, 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, medium 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 =1.= 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, Pl. 1851. =6.= Elliott _Fr. Book_ 273. 1854. =7.= Hooper _W. Fr. Book_ 221. 1857. =8.= _Mag. Hort._ =23=:518. 1857. =9.= _Flor. & Pom._ 24, Pl. 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. Off. Rpt._ 334. 1856. _York Précoce._ =14.= Mas _Le Verger_ =7=:115, 116, fig. 56. 1866-73. =15.= Leroy _Dict. Pom._ =6=:308, 309 fig., 310. 1879.