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VARIETY APPLE ORCHARD
Arlington Farm

Variety: Berry Red

Orchard location: Section G  Row 15-16  Tree 2

Arlington Accession No. 6337
Pom. No. 40514

Year: 1922
Date Picked: 9/23 
Pomology Number: 102569

Year: 1923
Date Picked: 9/16 
Pomology Number: 104044

Year: 1924
Date Picked: 10/18 
Pomology Number: 106011

Year: 1925
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Year: 1926
Date Picked: 9/17 
Pomology Number: 108170

Year: 1927
Date Picked: 9/13 
Pomology Number: 109430

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 - 5/2, full bloom
1925 - 4/15, 50% buds open - but few clusters
1926 - 4/30, 90% buds open
<s>1927</s> 1928 - 4/20, first bloom; 4/25, 30% buds open; 5/1, 90% in bloom.

Remarks:  1923 - 9/20  noted that spec. this season were 
very fine for the variety.
Scions received 3/13/08 from private collection
of W. N. Irwin at Eckington (over)
Scions of Berry Red were received 4-1-97 from 
A. J. Kyker, Zieglers, Tenn.

Characterization: Composite of 1924, 1926 & 1928 (storage 1/7/29)
Notes: Medium size, somewhat oblate conic,
Cavity rather deep, medium width, some russet, stem ⅜"
rather slender: Basin, medium, calyx lobes medium,
mostly converging, eye medium size usually closed.
Ground color yellowish, highly colored spec nearly covered
with bright red wash, indistinct striping; whitish bloom
Dots fairly numerous, yellowish, small, depressed, mostly
inconspicuous but some raised and more conspicuous,
some leather cracking somtimes giving coarse
appearance.  Flesh yellowish, moderately fine grain,
a little tough, fairly juicy, mildly acid till fully mature
then nearly or quite sweet. fairly rich, fair to good in quality.
some spec. somewhat suggest Arkansas (over)
        