Dwarf Champion. 1. N. Mex. Sta. Bul. 30:224, 225. 1899.
Listed as growing in New Mexico.
Dwarf Cuba. 1. Mich. Sta. Bul. 118:29. 1895. 2. Ibid. 129:23. 1896.
A variety with small flowers and reniform glands.
Dwarf Orleans. 1. Prince Treat. Hort. 17. 1828.
Nain. 2. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:44, 45, Pl. 32. 1768. 3. Leroy Dict. Pom. 6:175 fig., 176. 1879.
Zwergpfirsich. 4. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 3:199. 1858.
Italian Dwarf. 5. Am. Jour. Hort. 1:287, 288. 1867.
Dwarf Orleans originated in Orleans, Loiret, France, early in the Eighteenth Century. The tree attains a height of two or three feet and is used mostly as an ornamental; leaves long, pendent, glandless and much indented; flowers large, showy; fruit about two inches long, roundish, deeply sutured; skin white; flesh white, melting, with bitter juice; freestone; ripens early in October.
Dyer June. 1. Gard. Mon. 24:18. 1882.
A chance seedling found near Ava, Missouri. Fruit large; early; clingstone.
Dymond. 1. Jour. Hort. 3rd Ser. 3:331. 1881. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 442. 1884.
Said to have been introduced by a Mr. Veitch, Exeter, England. Leaves glandless; fruit large, roundish, with a deep suture; skin greenish-yellow, with a dull red cheek, mottled with brighter red; flesh white, slightly red at the pit, juicy, melting, with a high flavor; stone free; season the middle of September.