Jose Sweet. 1. Kenrick Am. Orch. 200. 1841. 2. Horticulturist 2:400. 1847-48.
A peach of delicious flavor but not very attractive outwardly; greenish-white, with a dull cheek. Flowers small; glands globose; ripens the last of September.
Josephine. 1. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 188. 1880.
Josephine is a seedling of Late Crawford grown by C. C. Engle, Paw Paw, Michigan, about 1875. On the Station grounds the fruit ripens early in October. Tree hardy, vigorous, productive; leaves with crenate margins and globose glands; fruit large, roundish; cavity broad; suture shallow; skin orange-yellow, with a heavy, dark red blush, considerably mottled, heavily pubescent; flesh stained at the stone, juicy, rich, vinous; quality good; stone large, elliptical, free.
Joys Early. 1. N. J. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 107. 1912.
Joys Early was introduced by R. G. Joyce of New York. The variety was grown for a time in New Jersey.
Judd. 1. Mich. Sta. Sp. Bul. 44:49. 1910.
This is a cross between Chili and Barnard made by G. E. Prater, Jr., Paw Paw, Michigan. It is said to be an improvement over its parents.
Jühlke Liebling. 1. Lauche Deut. Pom. VI:No. 13, Pl. 1882.
Raised from seed by August Fritze of Werder, near Potsdam, Prussia, Germany, in 1870. Tree vigorous, bears early; leaves of medium size, with small glands; flowers large, rose-colored; fruit large, globular, strongly sutured; skin heavily pubescent, thin, pale yellow, with a red blush; flesh yellowish-white, melting, aromatic, sweet; freestone; ripens at the end of August.