Prolific Beauty
Apple
Prolific Beauty
Origin / History
One of the original Putnam list of Washington County, Ohio (Warder, 1867). Warder calls it a showy fruit and remarks that it is somewhat singular so few choice sorts are traceable to the seeds of these first good orchards of the West; Rome Beauty is almost the only one of great notoriety referable to this source. Downing (1900): "Origin unknown."
Tree
Not described in source.
Fruit
Size: Large, sometimes quite large.
Form: Oblate to roundish oblate, somewhat conic, regular.
Stem: Medium.
Cavity: Wide, wavy, green.
Calyx: Eye small, closed.
Basin: Medium, wide, regular.
Skin: Smooth, yellowish green to yellowish, partially covered with stripes of red; stripes dull (Downing).
Dots: Minute, gray.
Flesh and flavor: Flesh whitish yellow, tender, juicy. Flavor acid. Quality "scarcely good" (Warder); "Poor" (Downing).
Core and seeds: Core large, regular, open, clasping. Seeds numerous, plump.
Season
September to December.
Uses
Kitchen, market.
Subtypes / Variants
Not described in source.
Other
Not described in source.
Book Sources
Described in 2 period pomological works
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— John A. Warder, American Pomology: Apples (1867)Prolific Beauty.
This showy fruit is one of the original Putnam list of Washington County, Ohio ; it is somewhat singular that so few choice sorts are traceable to the seeds of these first good orchards of the West. Rome Beauty is almost the only one of great notoriety that is referable to this source.
Fruit large, sometimes quite large, oblate, somewhat conic, regular ; Surface smooth, yellowish-green, partially covered with stripes of red ; Dots minute, gray.
Basin medium, wide, regular ; Eye small, closed.
Cavity wide, wavy, green ; Stem medium.
Fig. 107.—PROLIFIC BEAUTY.
Core large, regular, open, clasping ; Seeds numerous, plump ; Flesh whitish-yellow, tender, juicy ; Flavor acid ; quality scarcely good ; Use kitchen, market ; Season September to December.
— A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)Prolific Beauty. Origin unknown. Fruit large, roundish oblate, yellowish, with dull stripes of red. Flesh whitish yellow, tender, acid. Poor. September, December.