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VARIETY APPLE ORCHARD
Arlington Farm

Variety: Granny Smith

Orchard location: Section F  Row 11-12  Tree 3

Arlington Accession No. 4362 S.P.I.#1738
Pom. No. 28458

Year: 1922 
Date Picked: 10/26
Pomology Number: 102883

Year: 1923
Date Picked: 11/8*
Pomology Number: 104358

Year: 1924
Date Picked: 10/28
Pomology Number: 105994

Year: 1925
Date Picked: -
Pomology Number: -

Year: 1926
Date Picked: 11/1
Pomology Number: 108483

Year: 1927
Date Picked: 10/6
Pomology Number: 109644

Year: 1928
Date Picked: 10/23
Pomology Number: 110717

Year: 1929
Date Picked: -
Pomology Number: -

Year: 1930
Date Picked: 10/18
Pomology Number: -

Year: 1931
Date Picked: -
Pomology Number: -

Blossom dates:
1924 - 4/28, 25% buds open; 5/2, full bloom
1925 - 7/14, full bloom
1926 - 4/29, 75% buds open.
1927 -

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Scions for these trees
were cut from
nursery trees on
The Flats - there
recorded as Pom.
no. 21718
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Remarks: * This was the last picking of the season in 1923.
This variety is S.P.I. No. 6738 received June 19,
1901, from C. A. Nobelins, Emerald, Victoria.

Characterization: Good size, above medium to fairly
large. Form in general roundish but variable,
slightly conic, sometimes slightly oblong; in 1930,
<s>Characterization:</s>
a tendency to oblateness; sometimes halves a little
unequal. Skin color greenish until late and
full maturity reached then yellowish, sometimes a
little blush or bronzing on exposed side or
about base.  Usually some flecking or wash of
gray overspread. Dots widely variable; may be
whitish, submerged, inconspicuous; some especially on
sides may be large, pale yellow, conspicuous; sometimes
may appear as pinkish specks; many specimens especially
the larger fruits, and in some seasons more than others
dots raised into pimples similar to those characteristic
of Twenty-Ounce. Some seasons surface
is smooth.  and free of these pimples. (over)

        