Cultivar 552: Beautiful Arcade

Beautiful Arcade is an apple cultivar of Russian origin. Prairie and older test literature also list it as Repka Kislaga.[S1][S3] The same name appears in one U.S. source for an ornamental pollinator, so the name reuse should be checked in context.[S1]

In early twentieth-century northwest reports, Beautiful Arcade was one of ten highlighted varieties and appears in A.G. Tuttle’s best rated list as the "sweet entry".[S2] A prairie fruit directory also lists it under apples, showing it was part of northern orchard evaluation rather than only an ornamental mention.[S1][S3]

Descriptions generally call the fruit medium to large, oblong or oblong-conical, with some mention of angular shape. Skin is light yellow with red splashes or cloudy red and raised greenish dots in one source. Another source adds a roundish, slightly conic form with pale greenish-yellow skin, pink blush, white sweet flesh, and fair quality.[S2][S3]

Season is short. One source gives September, another August, and another late August to early September.[S2][S3] This supports a short mid to early fall use window.[S2][S3]

Tree notes describe it as productive, with one source saying vase shaped and another saying irregular spreading or open. Both still describe it as a good grower despite differences in stem and basin details.[S3][S2]

One prairie statement says it is hardy, and repeated inclusion in prairie and northwest northern fruiting sources reinforces cold region relevance.[S3][S2] Disease notes are mixed: one report says it can blight lightly on young trees, another says older trees are less affected, and another reports much blight with some blight at Ames.[S2]

No direct parentage, release year, or breeder was provided in this packet, and these should not be inferred from later references.[S1][S2][S3]

Summary source basis

• S1: Edible Apples in Prairie Canada
• S2: A Study of Northwestern Apples
• S3: TreeFruitsGrownInPrairieOrchards WRLeslie 1946 HQ

This summary currently draws chiefly from A Study of Northwestern Apples, with 2 additional supporting sources linked below.

Featured source descriptions

“Origin: Russia.”
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“Dots numerous, green, obscure, raised above the surface; cavity slightly wavy, abrupt, a little brown around the stem; stem very short; basin regular, corrugated in bottom.”
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“Beautiful Arcade is one of ten varieties for which descriptions were adopted because of special attention in the northwest.”
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“Cross-reference entry: see Repka Kislaga.”
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Direct parent cultivars

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Derived or downstream cultivar links

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Source-story quotations

• A.G. Tuttle: Beautiful Arcade blights a little on young trees, but not on old trees. C. G. Patten: It shows much blight with me. J. Sexton: It blights some at Ames.” (Rus. Nom. Com.)A Study of Northwestern Apples, p30
• A.G. Tuttle: Beautiful Arcade blights a little on young trees, but not on old trees. C. G. Patten: It shows much blight with me. J. Sexton: It blights some at Ames.” (Rus. Nom. Com.)A Study of Northwestern Apples, p30
• A.G. Tuttle: Beautiful Arcade blights a little on young trees, but not on old trees. C. G. Patten: It shows much blight with me. J. Sexton: It blights some at Ames.” (Rus. Nom. Com.)A Study of Northwestern Apples, p30
• "... Sweet Longfield, Beautiful Arcade, Zuzoff, Arabskoe." and "A. G. Tuttle ... named ... Beautiful Arcade (for sweet)"A Study of Northwestern Apples, p12

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Related cultivars mentioned in source context