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VARIETY APPLE ORCHARD
Arlington Farm

Variety: Golden Pippin (One of the Syn of Lowell)

Acc No. 4307. E: 19-20 : 4
Acc No. 4308. E: 19-20 : 5
Acc No. 6321. G: 9-10 : 3

(See Lowell Acc. No. 1872 B: 3-4 : 3
Much confusion exists regarding
the correct identity of these numbers.
Scions of the first 2 numbers were
received March 9, 1903 from C. G. 
Swingle, Manhattan, Kansas
with a (?) as to the variety
being Golden Pippin. No. 4307
was recorded as Pom. No. 28390; no.
4305, as Pom No. 28391. why 2 lots
of scions of doubtful and planted in 
the Arlington orchard is not clear.

Apparently in all of the fruit
records from the orchard Acc. no.
6321 gave the variety as Golden 
Pippin but the Arlington accession
card record gives it as Porter, Pom.
No. 40485, scions from W. N. Irwin,
March 10, 1908.  It may here be stated
that had this variety been Porter, I can
hardly escape the conviction that, in
the course of handling the specimens
during 6 or 7 seasons, I would

        