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Type = Peach. Per Okie (see citation): "Flower pink, nonshowy; blooms mid-season, medium cropping efficiency; tree chilling requirement 850 hours; skin pubescent, flesh yellow, 2.5 by 3.75 inches, round with tip, ground color deep yellow, low-medium firmness, good eating quality; stone 1.25 inches by 15/16 inch, free; ripens 15 days before Elberta." Per The Peaches of New York (see citation): "[St. John] is one of the earliest of the Crawford-like peaches... St. John resembles Early Crawford in size and shape but is a little more rotund, runs somewhat smaller, is not quite as high in quality and ripens several days earlier... It is more than half a century old, came from the South,... The variety reproduces itself from seed and this fact has led to its being distributed under a number of different names as is shown by the synonyms listed in the references... [leaves] globose glands... blossoms appear in mid-season; flowers seven-eighths inch across, white toward the base of the petals, becoming dark pink near the edges;...[fruit] two and one-half inches long, two and three-fourths inches wide, round-oval,...suture deep near the tip;...color deep yellow,...flesh light yellow, tinged with red near the pit, juicy, tender, pleasantly sprightly, highly flavored; very good in quality." Per the American Fruit Culturist (see citation): "Medium large, round; orange yellow with a red blush on sunny side; flesh tender, juicy, very good. Popular in many sections as an excellent yellow-fleshed freestone for the early market."