This variety is from Greening Brothers, Monroe, Michigan. The fruit is much like that of Alexander but darker in color and perhaps is a little better in quality; it ripens about two weeks later than Alexander.
Osceola. 1. Mas Le Verger 7:233, 234, fig. 115. 1866-73. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 629. 1869.
A peach of the Indian type which originated in Macon County, Georgia. Glands reniform; flowers large; fruit of medium size, roundish, compressed at the ends; apex tipped with a mamelon point; skin thick, golden-yellow, with a red cheek; flesh stained with dull red at the pit, fibrous, sweet, pleasant; stone free, roundish-oval, plump; matures late in September.
Osprey. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 455. 1884.
Orfraie. 2. Thomas Guide Prat. 55, 222. 1876.
Osprey originated with Thomas Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, England, about 1860 from a seed of Pitmaston Orange nectarine. Leaves with globose glands; flowers small; fruit very large, oblate, distinctly sutured; skin creamy, with a crimson stain where exposed; flesh tender, melting, deeply stained at the pit to which it clings, sprightly.
Ostrander Early. 1. N. Y. Sta. Rpt. 15:290. 1897.
This variety originated in Rochester, New York. The fruit resembles that of Early Crawford but is ten days earlier.
Ostrander Late. 1. Mich. Sta. Bul. 118:31. 1895. 2. Brown Bros. Cat. 35. 1900.
Listed as a yellow-fleshed freestone, bearing globose glands; ripens in November.
Overheiser. 1. Mich. Sta. Sp. Bul. 44:59. 1910.