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VARIETY APPLE ORCHARD
Arlington Farm

Variety: Arkansas Black

Orchard location: Section A  Row 1-2  Tree 5

Arlington Accession No. 1801
Pom. No. 24219

Year: 1922
Date Picked: 9/23 
Pomology Number: 102565

Year: 1923
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Year: <s>1924</s> 1925
Date Picked: 10/3
Pomology Number: 106987

Year: 1925
Date Picked: 10/7 (2d pick)  
Pomology Number: 108668

Year: 1927
Date Picked: 9/26
Pomology Number: 109500

Year: 1928
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Year: 1929
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Year: 1930
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Year: 1931
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Blossom dates:
1924 - 4/29  20% buds open
1925 - 4/14  25% buds open 4/16, 80% buds open
1926 - 4/28  50% buds open
1927

Remarks: Discussed and described in Report of the
Pomologist as published in the Report of
the Department of Agriculture for 1886, pp 268-9
1926 - Nov. 16. Noted: Rim fairly large for the var. and about
the best developed and most highly colored of any of var. ever
grown at Arlington.  Crop of 1927 was apparently equally well fruited.
More highly colored specimens almost black.

Characterization:  Scions from N. Y. Sta. 1902
size variable with some from below medium
to good size. Form, roundish conic.
Color - dark red from blood red to almost black in
most highy developed fruits.
Cavity medium, russeting in many fruits; Basin
shallow ribbed and wrinkled; eye small closed.
Dots few, small, yellowish, inconspicuous
flesh, the most yellow of any common var. fine
grain, very firm and hard, lacking juice. mildly
acid, poor quality when immature.  More
juicy, firm even when mature, and appreciably
more flavor when mature.  Possibly good then!
        