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In addition, scions of many varieties were supplied by Benj.
Buckman, Farmingdale, Ill., a private apple variety specialist.
I. J. Blackwell, Titusville, N. J., Silvanus Gordon, Sergeantsville,
N. J., D. C. Hicks, North Clarendon, Vt.,  The Kansas
Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kansas, the Michigan Experiment
Station, East Lansing, and in small numbers from many other individual
sources.

It may be stated further for the record that the most of the
scions from the New York Experiment Station were supplied in the
spring of 1902.  Those from Mr. Irwin's private collection, in 
1907 and 1908.  From the Pomology Journal of Receipts, it appears
that the collection of scions in 1908 nearly a duplicate of
that in 1907.  On inquiry from Mr. E. C. Butterfield, Superintendent
of Arlington Farm from many years, it was learned that
according to his recollection the reason for the second collection
in 1908 was that for some reason which he did not remember in
detail, there was a high degree of failure in propagating the
1907 scions.

There were also included in the older part of the orchard a
considerable number of varieties obtained from foreign sources
by the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction.  These
varieties in the earlier day were propagated and grown in a
nursery on Potomac Flats ( before Arlington Farm was established)
and the trees for Arlington Farm were propagated from scions
taken from this Potomac Flats nursery.

Nearly all of this propagating material was entered in the 
Pomology Journal of Receipts before being sent to Arlington
Farm for propagation, each variety being given a separate Pomoloyg
number.  Also when planted in the nursery each variety was given
an Arlington Accession number, so that in the variety notes both
the Pomology number and the Accession number are recorded for 
each variety, as a rule.  An exception is represented by the
propagating stock from the Kansas Agricultural College, the most
of which, for some reason, has no Pomology number; also a
number of lots from the Phoenix Nursery Company, Bloomington, Ill.

As may be observed from the accompanying blueprint of the
orchard, the first plantings were made in the spring of 1905;
others in 1906, and 1909, while some not recorded as to date,
were planted in later years, although very few if any, later than
1912.

So much for the background statement relating to the orchard.

The rest of this exposition is largely explanation, "apologia",
alibi, and other miscellaneous statements of varied purport, some
of which, at least, adds no credit to the sum-total of the
Arlington Apple Variety Orchard and the results which it produced.

        