This is a large, handsome clingstone grown near Georgetown, District of Columbia. Fruit roundish-oval; cavity deep, abrupt; apex terminates in a mamelon tip; skin thin, tough, pubescent, creamy-white, blushed and marbled with crimson; flesh white, tinged with red about the pit, firm, juicy, mild subacid, sprightly; quality very good; stone oval.
Asa Meek Seedling. 1. J. R. Johnson Cat. 5. 1894.
According to J. R. Johnson, Coshocton, Ohio, this is a seedling very closely resembling Globe.
Ashby Early. 1. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 111. 1880. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 32. 1883.
This variety, raised by G. W. Ashby, Charrute, Kansas, is said to be earlier and better than Amsden. In 1883 it was placed on the fruit-list of the American Pomological Society where it remained until 1891.
Astor. 1. Lond. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 6:414. 1826. 2. Floy-Lindley Guide Orch. Gard. 183. 1846.
Astor was found by Michael Floy in the yard of a Mr. Astor, New York City, about 1820. Tree large, thrifty, productive; leaves broad, deeply serrated, with globose glands; flowers medium in size; fruit large, oblate; cavity deep; suture divides the fruit; skin pale yellow, with a deep red cheek; flesh melting, whitish-yellow, faintly red at the stone, very juicy, high in quality; stone small, roundish, free; ripens the last of August.
Athenian Cling. 1. Horticulturist N. S. 7:180. 1857.
Fruit very large, oblong, depressed at the apex; suture a mere line; skin very downy, yellowish-white, marbled with dull red in the sun; flesh pale red at the pit, firm, rich, vinous; quality good; ripens in October.
Athens. 1. New Haven Nur. Cat. 6. 1901-02.