Tree intermediate in size, upright-spreading, rather open-topped, productive; branchlets thickish, pubescent; leaves falling early, folded upward, obovate or oval, one and seven-eighths inches wide, three and one-quarter inches long; margin crenate; petiole pubescent, glandless or with from one to three glands usually on the stalk; blooming season intermediate in time and length; flowers appearing after the leaves, one and one-eighth inches across; borne on lateral spurs or from lateral buds. Fruit very early; one and one-quarter inches by one and one-eighth inches in size, slightly oval, dark purplish-black, covered with thick bloom; skin thick, tough, sour; flesh greenish-yellow, firm, sweet, pleasant flavored; good to very good; stone semi-free, three-quarters inch by one-half-inch in size, irregular oval. EARLY YELLOW _Prunus domestica_ =1.= Parkinson _Par. Ter._ 575, 576. 1629. =2.= Rea _Flora_ 206, 207. 1676. =3.= Ray _Hist. Plant._ =2=:1688. =4.= Quintinye _Com. Gard._ 70. 1699. =5.= Langley _Pomona_ 90, Pl. 20 fig. 1. 1729. =6.= Duhamel _Trait. Arb. Fr._ =2=:66. 1768. =7.= Forsyth _Treat. Fr. Trees_ 19. 1803. =8.= Floy-Lindley _Guide Orch. Gard._ 297, 382. 1846. =9.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 925. 1869. =10.= _Country Gent._ =41=:518. 1876. =11.= Mathieu _Nom. Pom._ 424. 1889. =12.= _Guide Prat._ 152, 354. 1895. Amber Primordian 1, 2. _Amber Primordian_ 3, 8, 9, 11, 12. _Avant Prune blanche_ 9, 11, 12. _Bilboa_ 9, 11. Catalonia 1, 2, 3, 12. Castellan 4. _Catalonian_ 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. _Cerisette Blanche_ 9, 11, 12. _Castelane_ 11, 12. _Catalane_ 11, 12. _Catalonische Pflaume_ 11, 12. _Catalonischer Spilling_ 12. Catalonischer Spilling 11. _Catalonische Kricke_ 11. _De Catalogne_ 6, 11. De Catalogne 12. _D’Avoine_ 9, 12. _Die gelbe frühzeitige Pflaume_ 12. _Early Yellow_ 9, 10, 11, 12. _Early John_ 9, 11. _Early White Plum_ 11, 12. _Gelbe Spindel Pflaume_ 11. _Gelber Kleiner Spilling_ 11. _Gelbe Frühzeitige_ 11. _Gelbe frühe Pflaume_ 11, 12. _Jaune précoce_ 11, 12. _Jaune de Catalogne_ 9, 11, 12. Jaune Hâtive 6, 8. _Jaune Hâtive_ 11, 12. Jaunhâtive 7. _Jean Hâtive_ 9. Jean-hâtive 5. _Jean White_ 11, 12. _Kleine gelbe Früh Pflaume_ 11, 12. _London Plumb_ 5. _London Plum_ 9, 11, 12. Monsieur Jaune 11 incor., 12. _Prune de Catalogne_ 8, 9, 11. _Prune de St. Barnabe_ 8, 9. _Prune d’Avoine_ 11. _Pickett’s July_ 9, 11, 12. _Prune Monsieur Jaune_ 9. _Prune d’Altesse blanche_ 9,? 11. Primordian 10, 11, 12. _Prunus Catalana_ 11, 12. _Prunus Catelana_ 11. _Prunus Catalonica_ 11, 12. _St. Barnabée_ 9. _Saint Barnabe_ 11, 12. _Siebenbürger Pflaume?_ 11, 12.