This variety originated with E. J. Nugent, Ottawa, Kansas. It was on the fruit-list of the American Pomological Society from 1883 until 1891. Fruit very early, yellow; clingstone.
Number 2. 1. Kan. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 80. 1898.
This sort is a seedling of Marcella grown by E. T. Daniels, Kiowa, Kansas. It resembles Late Crawford but ripens the last of October.
Number 34 H. 1. Mich. Sta. Bul. 104:90. 1894.
Listed as having reniform glands; flowers large; flesh yellow; ripening the middle of September.
Number 83. 1. Fla. Sta. Rpt. 8:86. 1896.
Listed in this reference.
Nutmeg. 1. Parkinson Par. Ter. 582. 1629.
"The Nutmeg peach is of two sorts, one that will be hard when it is ripe and eateth not so pleasantly as the other, which will be soft and mellow; they are both small peaches having very little or no resemblance at all to a nutmeg except in being a little longer than round and are early ripe."
Oblong. 1. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 458. 1883.