Taxon ID: 1
Usage Facet: class=edible; edible_score=1.0; ornamental_score=0.0; inferred_from_taxon=yes
Relationships: 1 | Linked Entities (visible): 1 | Evidence claims: 13 | History events: 1 | Catalog issue offerings: 0
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Crimson Beauty is an early apple described in prairie fruit references as medium sized and roundish, with greenish yellow skin washed with crimson. The flesh is yellowish, tender, and slightly acid. It is said to have little flavor and only fair eating quality. Sources also describe it as an early summer apple that drops easily, turns mealy, and does not keep well. [S1] [S3]
Prairie sources attribute Crimson Beauty to F. P. Sharp and date it to about 1880, but they disagree on the place. One gives Woodstock, New Jersey. Another gives Woodstock, New Brunswick. It was indexed in prairie orchard literature and was sometimes called Early Red Bird in error. One prairie note says it served in colder parts of the United States much as Heyer #12 did locally, and as a red skinned substitute for Yellow Transparent, though it was considered less hardy. [S1] [S3]
The fruit is medium sized, greenish to greenish yellow, and heavily washed with crimson. It ripens very early, from early to late August in one prairie bulletin, and is described elsewhere simply as early. Quality is only fair. The flesh is tender and slightly acid. Keeping quality is poor. Sources agree it is not a storage apple. [S1] [S3]
The tree is described as spreading and productive, with medium hardiness in prairie terms. This fits the comparison that it was not nearly as hardy as Yellow Transparent. The prairie record places Crimson Beauty among apples that could be grown, or at least discussed, in prairie orchards, but not among the hardiest standard apples in the region. [S1] [S3]
In the broader archive, Crimson Beauty is placed in the apple genus Malus and appears in prairie orchard and hardy apple reference works as a named historic cultivar, not as a breeding program release from Morden or Ottawa. A separate lineage record links it to the later cross Crimson Beauty x Red Melba, which indicates breeding use, not its own parentage. [S1] [S3]
Summary source basis
This summary currently draws chiefly from Edible Apples in Prairie Canada, with 3 additional supporting sources linked below.
Featured source descriptions
“Listed under Apples in the page's 'List of Varieties Described.'”
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“Nursery source number 23 is associated with this entry.”
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“Early ripening; drops easily and becomes mealy.”
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“Fair quality.”
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Zone assertions are structured rows. Hardiness claim text appears in evidence claims and page-linked citations.
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| Document | Title/URL | Rights | Claims | Relationships | History Events | Pages | Snippets |
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| 3 | Edible Apples in Prairie Canada | unknown | 12 | 0 | 0 | p24 | Hardiness rated borderline hardy (H3).; FB1 is recorded with the entry as a fireblight-susceptibility code.; Rated H3, meaning borderline hardy.; Said by F.P. Sharp to be sometimes erroneously called Early Red Bird. |
| 72 | Quinte | unknown | 1 | 1 | 1 | n/a | Crimson Beauty x Red Melba; relationship: cross_parent; history: Crimson Beauty x Red Melba |
| Document | Page | Claim Type | Claim | Quote | Match |
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| 3 | p24 | entry_hardiness_observation | Hardiness rated borderline hardy (H3). | Crimson Beauty P.F. Sharp, Woodstock, NJ (c. 1880) Fruit of medium size, greenish, fair quality, early, drops easily and becomes mealy. Poor keeper. Manchester notes "Early summer apple of the colder regions..." Used in | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p24 | description_snippet | FB1 is recorded with the entry as a fireblight-susceptibility code. | Crimson Beauty P.F. Sharp, Woodstock, NJ (c. 1880) Fruit of medium size, greenish, fair quality, early, drops easily and becomes mealy. Poor keeper. Manchester notes "Early summer apple of the colder regions..." Used in | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p24 | entry_hardiness_observation | Rated H3, meaning borderline hardy. | Crimson Beauty P.F. Sharp, Woodstock, NJ (c. 1880) Fruit of medium size, greenish, fair quality, early, drops easily and becomes mealy. Poor keeper. Manchester notes "Early summer apple of the colder regions..." Used in | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p24 | description_snippet | Said by F.P. Sharp to be sometimes erroneously called Early Red Bird. | Crimson Beauty P.F. Sharp, Woodstock, NJ (c. 1880) Fruit of medium size, greenish, fair quality, early, drops easily and becomes mealy. Poor keeper. Manchester notes "Early summer apple of the colder regions..." Used in | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p24 | anecdote_snippet | Used in the States as Heyer #12 is used on the Prairies. | Crimson Beauty P.F. Sharp, Woodstock, NJ (c. 1880) Fruit of medium size, greenish, fair quality, early, drops easily and becomes mealy. Poor keeper. Manchester notes "Early summer apple of the colder regions..." Used in | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p24 | recommendation_context | Manchester notes it as an early summer apple of colder regions and a red-skinned substitute for Yellow Transparent, though not nearly as hardy. | Crimson Beauty P.F. Sharp, Woodstock, NJ (c. 1880) Fruit of medium size, greenish, fair quality, early, drops easily and becomes mealy. Poor keeper. Manchester notes "Early summer apple of the colder regions..." Used in | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p24 | keeping_quality | Poor keeper. | Crimson Beauty P.F. Sharp, Woodstock, NJ (c. 1880) Fruit of medium size, greenish, fair quality, early, drops easily and becomes mealy. Poor keeper. Manchester notes "Early summer apple of the colder regions..." Used in | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p24 | description_snippet | Early ripening, drops easily, becomes mealy, and is a poor keeper. | Crimson Beauty P.F. Sharp, Woodstock, NJ (c. 1880) Fruit of medium size, greenish, fair quality, early, drops easily and becomes mealy. Poor keeper. Manchester notes "Early summer apple of the colder regions..." Used in | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p24 | flavor_profile | Fruit described as fair quality. | Crimson Beauty P.F. Sharp, Woodstock, NJ (c. 1880) Fruit of medium size, greenish, fair quality, early, drops easily and becomes mealy. Poor keeper. Manchester notes "Early summer apple of the colder regions..." Used in | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p24 | fruit_color | Fruit greenish. | Crimson Beauty P.F. Sharp, Woodstock, NJ (c. 1880) Fruit of medium size, greenish, fair quality, early, drops easily and becomes mealy. Poor keeper. Manchester notes "Early summer apple of the colder regions..." Used in | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p24 | fruit_size | Fruit described as medium size. | Crimson Beauty P.F. Sharp, Woodstock, NJ (c. 1880) Fruit of medium size, greenish, fair quality, early, drops easily and becomes mealy. Poor keeper. Manchester notes "Early summer apple of the colder regions..." Used in | page_block:0.90 |
| 3 | p24 | breeder_reference | Associated with P.F. Sharp, Woodstock, New Jersey, circa 1880. | Crimson Beauty P.F. Sharp, Woodstock, NJ (c. 1880) Fruit of medium size, greenish, fair quality, early, drops easily and becomes mealy. Poor keeper. Manchester notes "Early summer apple of the colder regions..." Used in | page_block:0.90 |
| Year | Nursery | Catalog Issue | Relation |
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| Relation | Type | ID | Label |
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| cross_parent | cultivar | 246 | Red Melba |
| Type | Claim | Confidence |
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| entry_hardiness_observation | Hardiness rated borderline hardy (H3). | 0.96 |
| description_snippet | FB1 is recorded with the entry as a fireblight-susceptibility code. | 0.74 |
| entry_hardiness_observation | Rated H3, meaning borderline hardy. | 0.94 |
| description_snippet | Said by F.P. Sharp to be sometimes erroneously called Early Red Bird. | 0.90 |
| anecdote_snippet | Used in the States as Heyer #12 is used on the Prairies. | 0.90 |
| recommendation_context | Manchester notes it as an early summer apple of colder regions and a red-skinned substitute for Yellow Transparent, though not nearly as hardy. | 0.92 |
| keeping_quality | Poor keeper. | 0.96 |
| description_snippet | Early ripening, drops easily, becomes mealy, and is a poor keeper. | 0.95 |
| flavor_profile | Fruit described as fair quality. | 0.88 |
| fruit_color | Fruit greenish. | 0.89 |
| fruit_size | Fruit described as medium size. | 0.93 |
| breeder_reference | Associated with P.F. Sharp, Woodstock, New Jersey, circa 1880. | 0.88 |
| breeding_cross | Crimson Beauty x Red Melba | 0.65 |
| ID | Type | Year | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 577 | cross_event | 1964 | Crimson Beauty x Red Melba |