Flower-buds conical or pointed, plump, pubescent, usually free; blossoms appear in mid-season; flowers dark pink at the center, with lighter pink toward the margin and with streaks of light pink along the veins, one and one-half inches across, usually single; pedicels short, glabrous, green, with a few reddish dots; calyx-tube dull green mottled with red, with varying shades of orange within, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes broad, usually obtuse, pubescent within and without, with longer hairs along the edges, erect; petals round or inclined to oval, entire, notched on both sides near the claws which are short, broad and tinged with red near the base; filaments one-half inch long, shorter than the petals; pistil finely pubescent at the ovary, longer than the stamens. Fruit matures early; one and three-fourths inches long, one and seven-eighths inches wide, round, slightly compressed, with unequal halves; cavity regular, medium to deep, wide, flaring; suture shallow, with a slight bulge near the apex; apex roundish or flattened, ending abruptly in a short, sharp, recurved point; color creamy-white, with an attractive blush extending over one-half of the surface; pubescence short, thick; skin tough, free; flesh white, juicy, tender, sweet, with some astringency; good in quality; stone semi-free, one and five-sixteenths inches long, fifteen-sixteenths inch wide, ovate or oval, plump, with a short-pointed apex, surfaces marked by short grooves; ventral suture deep along the sides, narrow; dorsal suture deeply grooved, winged. HEATH CLING =1.= Prince _Treat. Fr. Trees_ 17. 1820. =2.= Kenrick _Am. Orch._ 234. 1832. =3.= _Proc. Nat. Con. Fr. Gr._ 51. 1848. =4.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 78. 1862. =5.= Fulton _Peach Cult._ 197, 198. 1908. _Heath._ =6.= Coxe _Cult. Fr. Trees_ 228. 1817. =7.= _Lond. Hort. Soc. Rpt._ 97. 1831. =8.= Prince _Pom. Man._ =2=:29, 30. 1832. =9.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 494, 495. 1845. =10.= Floy-Lindley _Guide Orch. Gard._ 187, 188. 1846. =11.= Elliott _Fr. Book_ 274, 275. 1854. =12.= Mas _Le Verger_ =7=:207, 208, fig. 102. 1866-73. =13.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 37. 1909. _White English._ =14.= _Horticulturist_ N. S. =7=:178, 179. 1857.