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An excerpt from Beach’s Apples of New York, Volume 1:
ARKANSAS BEAUTY.
REFERENCES, 1. Stinson, Ark. Sta. Bui., 60:124. 1899. 2. Bailey, An. Hort, 1892:234. 3. Budd-Hansen, 1903:40. 4. Powell and Fulton, U. S. B. P. I. Bui, 48:36. 1903.
The Arkansas Beauty is a variety of Arkansas origin. Stinson ( i ) says that it is grown to some extent in a few sections of that state but has -not proven valuable. A.S grown in this latitude the fruit does not always attain good color or good quality.
Tree vigorous; branches long, stout, crooked. Form wide spreading with a rather open top. Twigs rather long, moderately stout, often crooked; inter- nodes usually short. Bark olive-green with reddish-brown markings, dull, mottled thickly with scarf-skin; somewhat pubescent. Lenticels rather scattering, roundish or somewhat oblong, medium size to rather small. Buds large to medium, plump, rather obtuse, pubescent. Leaves rather long and narrow.
Fruit above medium. Form roundish inclined to conic. Stem long to
medium, rather slender. Cavity small, acute, deep, broad, nearly symmetrical, slightly furrowed. Calyx medium, closed or partly open, pubescent. Basin small, medium in depth and width, rather abrupt, somewhat furrowed.
Skin tough, smooth, rather glossy, pale green or yellow, blushed with pinkish- red, and marked with rather faint stripes of carmine.
Calyx tube long, funnel-shaped.
Core open. Carpels much concave, broadly roundish, emarginate inclined to obcordate, tufted. Seeds numerous, dark, medium or below, rather wide, plump, obtuse.
Flesh slightly tinged with yellow, firm, rather fine, moderately crisp, tender, juicy, mild subacid, good.
Beach, S.A. The Apples of New York, Volume I. J.B. Lyon Company, 1905