Docteur Burkard. 1. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 393. 1889.
Listed but not described.
Docteur Lucas. 1. Thomas Guide Prat. 53. 1876.
Found at the Saint-Florian Abbey, Germany. Tree vigorous; fruit large, roundish-oblate, blushed with deep red on a green ground; of first quality; matures the middle of September.
Docteur Krans. 1. Mas Le Verger 7:117, 118, fig. 57. 1866-73.
Introduced by a Dr. Krans, Liege, Belgium. Tree vigorous; glands reniform; flowers large; fruit of medium size, roundish-oval, flattened at the ends; suture pronounced; skin thin, tender, pale yellow, blushed with intense purple where exposed; flesh white, tinged about the pit, melting, juicy, sweet; of first quality; stone small, elliptical, nearly free; ripens at the end of August.
Dr. Burton. 1. Munson Cat. 6. 1905-06.
According to T. V. Munson, Denison, Texas, this variety is a seedling grown by Dr. E. L. Burton, Grayson County, Texas. In the Station orchard it is a fairly good peach but not of superior merit. Tree productive; glands globose, small; flowers appearing in mid-season, large; fruit large, oval; cavity deep; apex often ends in a mamelon tip; skin tough, creamy-yellow, with few splashes of dark, dull red usually near the cavity; flesh white, with a trace of pink along the suture, juicy, tender, stringy, sprightly; stone oval, with a long point at the apex, plump; ripens just before Champion.
Dr. Cummings. 1. Rural N. Y. 61:734. 1902.
A seedling of Early Crawford raised at Cayuga, New York, and disseminated by H. S. Wiley of the same place; a yellow freestone ripening about October 1st.