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VARIETY APPLE ORCHARD
Arlington Farm

Variety: Barcroft

Orchard location: Section G  Row 13-14  Tree 5

Arlington Accession No. 6335
Pom. No. 40512

Year: 1922
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Year: 1923
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Year: 1924
Date Picked: 10/8
Pomology Number: 105704

Year: 1925
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Year: 1926
Date Picked: 10/4
Pomology Number: 108169

Year: 1927
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Year: 1928
Date Picked: 9/27
Pomology Number: 110426

Year: 1929
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Year: 1930
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Year: 1931
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Blossom dates:
1924 - 5/2, 25% buds open; 5/6, full- but very light bloom.
1925 - 4/15, 50% buds open; 4/20, full- but few clusters only.
1926 - 4/30, center buds open  - few clusters only.
<s>1927</s>1928 - 4/25, first bloom; 5/1 full bloom.

Remarks:
1928 - 10/4 - An attractive little apple but too small.
scions received 3/13/08 from private collection
of W. N. Irwin at Eckington.

Characterization:
1926 & 1928 notes.  Size small distinctly oblate and ribbed
being definitely 5 - sided.  Ground color yellow nearly
all overspread with bright red, indistinctly striped where
highly colored, more distinctly where less well colored; Dots
many, small, inconspicuous to eye but raised enough
to give pimply effect to touch.  Cavity rather deep, broad,
stem hardly ¼". basin deep, somewhat abrupt;
calyx lobes short, eye closed. Flesh yellowish,
firm fine grained, crisp, juicy, sprightly acid.
pleasant, fairly rich, good when fully ripe - 
about mid. Oct.  But too small to be of value.

        