Arkansas Black
- From
- Benton County
- Description
- Commands good market price Distinct from the Arkansas apple and the Mammoth Blacktwig apple First bore fruit in Benton County (AR) in 1870
- Flesh quality
- good, firm, fine-grained, crisp, juicy, moderately subacid
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- Smooth, waxy
- Skin color
- red, yellow, mottled, purple, black
- Sizes
- small, medium
- Shape
- round
- Keeping quality
- Good keeper
- General quality
- Beautiful Tree is unproductive hence, undesirable for planting
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- April
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 49.