
          than Yellow Transparent, but
otherwise it seems indistinguishable
from it, although it possesses
some of the characteristics commonly
associated with Grand Sultan. It
would be exceedingly difficult,
however, to separate specimens
of the two varieties, if this is
Grand Sultan - This perhaps
would be true of any 2 lots of
authentic specimens of these
2 varieties, since they are not doubt
very closely similar.

That the original Arlington Acc. No.
record as Yellow Summer Pearmain
was correct seems entirely doubtful 
if the name in this case was used
for Porter.  It does not seem
either probably  or possible that I 
would have handled the specimens
for 4 different seasons without
detecting Porter characteristics being
quite familiar with that variety.
The scions as per the record, were receiv[ed]
from Mr. Irwin March 10, 1908 and
recorded as Pom. No. 40494.
        