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to rather long. Bark clear brownish-red mingled with olive-green, partly 

 covered with streaked scarf-skin; quite pubescent. Lenticels numerous, 

 medium to below, oblong. Buds medium size, plump, acute, appressed, 

 pubescent. Leaves medium size, broad. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit small. Form roundish conic to oblong conic, often unsymmetrical ; 

 sides often compressed. Stem short, thick, often obliquely inserted. Cavity 

 acute, moderately shallow to rather deep, furrowed or compressed, sometimes 

 lipped, usually smooth. Calyx small, closed. Basin abrupt, medium in width 

 and depth, distinctly furrowed. 



Skin tough, somewhat waxy, dull yellowish-green partly overlaid with a 

 dull, rather dark red having narrow, indistinct, carmine stripes. Dots numer- 

 ous, pale, rather conspicuous. 



Calyx tube narrow, elongated, cone-shape or funnel-form. Stamens median 

 to marginal. 



Core abaxile, closed or partly open ; core lines clasping. Carpels decidedly 

 concave, broadly ovate, slightly emarginate, distinctly tufted. Seeds medium 

 to large, rather narrow, long, acute, somewhat tufted. 



Flesh greenish-white, firm, moderately fine, somewhat crisp, moderately 

 juicy, mild subacid, fair to good. 



Season March to June. 



ARKANSAS, 



REFERENCES, i. Van Deman, Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1891:123. 2. Babcock, 

 Amer. Card., 1891:118. 3. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:234, 244. 4. Babcock, Am. 

 Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1895:190. 5. Amer. Card., 1895:419. 6. Stinson, Ark. Sta. 

 Bui., 43:103. 1896. 7. Amer. Card., 1896:29, 65, 146, 152, 210, 306. 8. Watts, 

 Tenn. Sta. Bui., 9:24. 1896. fig. 9. U. S. Pom. Bui., 6:9. 1897. 10. Stinson, 

 Ark. Sta. Bui., 49:5, 7. 1898. figs, of trees and fruit, n. Powell, Del. Sta. 

 Bui, 38:19. 1898. fig. 12. Stinson, Ark. Sta. Bui., 60:124. 1899. 13. N. C. 

 Bd. of Agr. Apple Bid., 1900:9. 14. Alwood, Va. Sta. Bui., 130:127. 1901. 

 15. Stinson, Mo. State Fruit Sta. Bui, 3:26. 1902. 16. Budd-Hansen, 1903:39. 

 fig. 17. Thomas, 1903:322, 690, 708. 



SYNONYMS. ARKANSAW (4, 10, 12). Arkansaw (16). MAMMOTH BLACK 

 TWIG (6). Mammoth Black Twig (9, 10, n, 12, 14, 15, 16). PARAGON 

 (erroneously) (i). ARKANSAS BLACK and Arkansas Black Twig (17) but 

 erroneously. 



The Arkansas is a late keeping winter apple, rather large, of 

 good red color, and good quality. It is not a desirable variety for 

 growing in New York state because it is not sufficiently productive 

 and because in this northern latitude the seasons are not always 

 favorable to the proper development of its fruit. It keeps later 

 than the Baldwin but it is inferior to that variety in productiveness 



and also in the color and quality of its fruit. 

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