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VARIETY APPLE ORCHARD
Arlington Farm

Variety: Golden Pippin? (Lowell? see below)

Orchard location: Section E  Row 19-20  Tree 4

Arlington Accession No. 4307   (Pom. No. 28390)
Pom. No. 28390

Year: 1922 
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Year: 1923
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Year: 1924
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Year: 1925
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Year: 1926
Date Picked: 8/27
Pomology Number: 107759

Year: 1927
Date Picked: 8/18
Pomology Number: 109337

Year: 1928
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Year: 1929
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Year: 1930
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Year: 1931
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Blossom dates:
1924 - 5/6, full bloom - bloom light.
1925 - 4/14, 25% buds open; 4/20, full bloom but still few buds.
1926 - 4/30, center buds open.
1927 -

Remarks: Received as scions marked Golden Pippin*? on
March 9, 1903 from C. G. Swingle, Manhattan, Kans.
as was Acc. No. 4308. E: 19-20 : 5.  It was noted on
the specimen card in 1927 that the fruit of this
no. (4307) and B: 3-4 : 3.  supposed to be and
probably was Lowell appeared to be indentical.
Golden Pippin is a syn. of Lowell (BPI. Bul. 56)

Characterization: 1926 notes. Size Medium, roundish
conic, some specimens being slightly elongated;
smooth, except slight ribbing. regular. Skin
color yellow - self-colored with no suggestion
of red markings.  Dots rather scattered, some
moderately large quite conspicuous, yellowish.
Flesh tinged yellow, moderately fine grain, slightly
lacking in juice, mild subacid, rather flat, though
not unpleasant.  Lacks richness, hardly fair in
dessert quality.  In appearance, rather attractive
for a yellow apple.

*Pom Jour entry for #28390 records: "These scions may be Golden Pippin"
Pom Jour entry for #28391 records: "These scions probably are Golden Pippin"
        