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VARIETY APPLE ORCHARD
Arlington Farm

Variety: Arkansas (Mammoth Black Twig)

Pomology No. 28419

Orchard location: Section E  Row 23-24  Tree 5

Arlington Accession No. 4318
Pom. No. 28419

Year: 1922
Date Picked: 10/25
Pomology Number: 102864

Year: 1923
Date Picked: 11/ 1
Pomology Number: 104458

Year: 1924
Date Picked: 11/4
Pomology Number: 105986

Year: 1925
Date Picked:
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Year: 1926
Date Picked: 10/20
Pomology Number: 108692

Year: 1927
Date Picked: 10/6
Pomology Number: 109652

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: 10/6
Pomology Number: 112345

Blossom dates:
1924 - 4/28, first bloom; 5/6, past full
1925 - 4/14, 50% of buds open; 4/20, well past full 
1926 - 4/30, 90% buds open
1927 - 4/12, first bloom.

Remarks:
Scions renewed 3/13/03 from N. Y. Expt.
Sta.  as Mammoth Black Twig.  Orchard
records made under neame Paragon.  When
change was made is uncertain, but likely
directey by Close sine he used name Paragon
consistently instead of Arkansas or M.B.T.

Characerization:  1924 Notes.  There is perhaps good
reason for considering these spec.  Arkansas though
I noted "presumably OK" for Paragon.  I did not
consider the specimens as typical, however, of Arkansas
according to my conception of that variety.  I observed
as follows: "In the shade of red, in the dots and
in some other particulars the resemblance of
this apple to Kinnard is closer than to Paragon.
In fact if these specimens possessed the
romanstemming of Kinnard, and, they
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