Origin southern, though long extensively grown in the North, and everywhere in the West a favorite early fruit.
Tree hardy, vigorous, healthy, upright, early bearer, productive; Shoots slender, dark; Foliage dark.
Fruit small to medium, form variable, but generally oblong-ovate, regular; Surface smooth, deep red on white, nearly universal; Dots minute.
Basin shallow, folded, plaited; Eye small, closed; Segments reflexed.
Cavity narrow, acute; Stem medium or short.
Core oval, open, meeting the eye; Seeds numerous, small, plump; Flesh white, very tender, fine-grained, juicy; Flavor sub-acid, not rich; Quality good; Use, table and market; Season, June and July—one of the earliest.
There is a striped variety, the Striped June, from Virginia, similar in every respect except the external markings. It is, of course, quite different from the Virginia June.—(Q. vide p. 500.)
Crawford Keeper.
This fruit was received from H.N. Gillett, Lawrence County, Ohio.
Fruit large, cylindrical, oblong, lop-sided; Surface smooth, purplish red; Dots numerous, fawn colored.