Origin: in White Horse Pike, Hammonton, N.J., by Joseph G. Battaglia. Introd. in 1957, by Bountiful Ridge Nurseries, Princess Anne, Md. Plant patent 1661; 3 Dec. 1957; assigned to Edgar H. Kemp and Homer S. Kemp, Princess Anne, Md., copartners, trading as Bountiful Ridge Nurseries. Erly-Red-Fre mutation; discovered in 1950. Tree: vigorous; blooms before most other varieties; short chilling requirement; leaf glands globose; flower size medium, salmon. Fruit: cheek diam. about 2 1/4 inches; flesh white, mottled with red next to skin on the sunny size, quality good, semi-freestone; ripens before Mayflower and about 3 weeks before parent.
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