According to Leroy, this variety was mentioned as early as the Fourteenth Century. It has been much confused with Avant-Pêche Blanche. Tree vigorous; glands reniform; flowers large; fruit medium in size, roundish; cavity deep; apex mamelon; skin thin, heavily pubescent, golden-yellow, mottled with dark brownish-red; flesh firm, yellow, carmine at the stone, juicy, sweet, aromatic; stone small, roundish, plump, strongly sutured, free; ripens the middle of July.
Avant-Précoce. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 12:157, 158, fig. 15. 1883.
Glands reniform; flowers medium in size; fruit small to medium, nearly round; apex mucronate; suture deep; cavity narrow, small; skin firm, thin, heavily pubescent, whitish-yellow, purple where exposed; flesh white, stained with red at the stone, firm, sugary, juicy, aromatic; stone small, oval; ripens late in July.
Avant-Précoce Pavie. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 12:185. 1883.
Listed but not described.
Avocat Collignon. 1. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 387. 1889.
Listed but not described.
Azoo Cling. 1. Tex. Sta. Bul. 8:34. 1889.
Listed as growing in Texas.
Babcock. 1. N. Y. Sta. Rpt. 15:289. 1897.