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VARIETY APPLE ORCHARD
Arlington Farm

Variety: Haswell

Orchard location: Section G  Row 21-22  Tree 4

Arlington Accession No. 6355
Pom. No. 40535. Rec'd march 13, 1908. from private collection of W. N. Irwin, Eckington

Year: 1922 
Date Picked: 9/6
Pomology Number: 102570

Year: 1923
Date Picked: 10/8
Pomology Number: 104198

Year: 1924
Date Picked: -
Pomology Number: -

Year: 1925
Date Picked: 9/21
Pomology Number: 106849

Year: 1926
Date Picked: 9/1
Pomology Number: 107857

Year: 1927
Date Picked: 9/6
Pomology Number: 109340

Year: 1928
Date Picked: 9/8
Pomology Number:110405

Year: 1929
Date Picked: 
Pomology Number:

Year: 1930
Date Picked: 
Pomology Number:

Year: 1931
Date Picked: 
Pomology Number:

Blossom dates:
1924, no bloom
1925, 4/15, 75% buds open; 4/20, past full
1926, 4/30, 50% buds open - very light bloom
<s>1927</s>1928, 5/1, 95% buds open

Remarks: Some uncertainty as to identity. Probably
traces to an apple sent by J. E. Abernathy, Ocellus, Tenn. as Haswell's (or Hawells's) Seek-no-futher. Need to look
up old correspondence for verification. Some doubt
however as to whether this apple is the one sent by
Mr. Abernathy even though records may indicate it.
discrepancy between painting and description.

Characterization:
Medium to large, roundish conic to slightly oblate
conic; somewhat irregular; halves commonly unequal.
Ground color yellow, pretty well covered with bright red
in best specimens, others varying degrees of blush.
Sometimes grayish overspread; bloom usually present
Dots variable - yellowish or brownish, raised, conspicuous;
or minute submerged, yellowish, inconspicuous.
Cavity rather deep, somewhat abrupt; stem ½", moderately
stout, tendency to Roman stem sometimes. Basin
medium; calyx lobes rather long, converging, but eye
large and partially open. Flesh tinged yellow, fairly
fine grain but sometimes seems rather coarse; (over)

        