Mary Daisy Arnold (c. 1873 – August 13, 1955)[2][1] was a botanical artist who worked for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for over thirty-five years, painting watercolors of a wide variety of fruits.

She is one of the three most prolific artists whose work is now preserved in the USDA's Pomological Watercolor Collection.

[3] Arnold studied art in New York and began her long career with USDA in 1904, becoming part of a part of a select cadre of illustrators that included Deborah Griscom Passmore, Amanda Newton, Elsie Lower, Royal Charles Steadman, and J. Marion Shull.

With respect to her USDA career, this may be due partly to the fact that records of the National Personnel Record Center in St. Louis dating from before 1921 have been destroyed.

She also did some related work such as mounting and coloring lantern slides.