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VARIETY APPLE ORCHARD
Arlington Farm

Variety: Mann's Choice (see attached sheets on same variety*)

Pomology No. 43137

Orchard location: Section I  Row 21-22  Tree 5

Arlington Accession No. 7179

Year: 1922 
Date Picked: 9/18
Pomology Number: 102541

Year: 1923
Date Picked: 9/15
Pomology Number: 104007

Year: 1924
Date Picked: 9/7
Pomology Number: 105265

Year: 1925
Date Picked: 9/23
Pomology Number: 106862

Year: 1926
Date Picked: 9/7; 10/4
Pomology Number: 107923; 108352

Year: 1927
Date Picked: 9/19
Pomology Number: 109448

Year: 1928
Date Picked: 
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Year: 1929
Date Picked: 
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Year: 1930
Date Picked: 
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Year: 1931
Date Picked: 
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Blossom dates:
1924
1925
1926 - 5/1, 75% buds open
1927 - 4/16, first bloom
1928 - 4/26, 20% buds open; 5/1, 50% buds open.

Remarks: 
From the first (1922) specimens were submitted
labeled Rabun. When or by whom so identified
is uncertain. Acc. record gives no variety name
but the Pom. Jour. Entry under No. 43137 gives
Mann's Choice as the name.  Scions received 3/22/09
Accuracy of name Rabun was questioned several times.

Characterization: Size large, irregular, more or less ribbed,
sides sometimes unequal, slightly oblate conic
ground cover yellow, nearly covered with bright red
but sometimes getting as dark as fairly, highly colored
Arkansas Black; some indistinct striping; a whitish
bloom. Cavity narrow, shallow, suggestive, Pewankee of
Thompkins King in this detail; sometimes russeting about
the cavity; dots variable in number, small, some submerged,
whitish or yellowish, inconspicuous. Flesh tinged
yellow, fairly fine grain, breaking, considerable
(over)
        