Brown Choice. 1. Black Cult. Peach & Pear 115. 1886.
Brown Best. 2. Fulton Peach Cult. 177, 178. 1908.
A large, white-fleshed variety ripening with Late Crawford.
Brown Early. 1. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 115. 1880.
An early variety originated by W. L. Brown, Ashley, Illinois.
Brown Nutmeg. 1. Prince Pom. Man. 2:24, 25. 1832.
This is a stray variety which has often been confused with Red Nutmeg but the two are distinct. Fruit much smaller than Red Nutmeg, somewhat oval, with a mamelon apex; skin yellowish, with considerable dingy red; flavor pleasant; ripens in July.
Browns Frühpfirsich. 1. Stoll O. U. Pom. Pl. 52 fig. 4. 1888.
A seedling of Hale Early ripening after it. Fruit globular, slightly compressed at the ends; skin woolly, whitish-yellow, spotted red where exposed; flesh white, adherent; stone large for the size of fruit.
Brunson. 1. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 79. 1889. 2. Mich. Sta. Sp. Bul. 44:32, Pl. 1910.
Brunson is a chance seedling found about 1880 by Rufus Brunson, Benton Harbor, Michigan. It is grown in Michigan but not as much as Kalamazoo which it closely resembles. On the Station grounds the trees are hardy, unproductive, large, with lower branches drooping. Glands reniform; flowers appear early, small; fruit large, cordate; apex usually mamelon; skin tough, covered with short pubescence, lemon-yellow, splashed with dark, dull red on a lively blush giving it a bronze effect; flesh yellow, firm, mild; good; stone broadly oval, bulged near the apex, terminating in a long, sharp point; ripens the middle of September.