Givens
- From
- Benton County
- Description
- Originated on the farm of Mr. Givens, Benton county, Ark. Noticed by Professor Stinson in 1898 as one of the promising new Arkansas seedlings.
- Flesh quality
- Firm, rather fine-grained, not very crisp nor very tender, moderately juicy, mild subacid, and good.
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- Tough and smooth
- Skin color
- yellow, green, red, red blushed
- Sizes
- medium, above medium, below medium, small, very small
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, truncate, conical
- Keeping quality
- A late keeping red winter apple fully equal to Ben Davis in quality.
- General quality
- A good apple.
- Uses
- market
- Eating season starts in
- January
- Eating season ends in
- May
- Also known as
- Arkansas Baptist 140
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 140.