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VARIETY APPLE ORCHARD
Arlington Farm

Variety: Carson

Orchard location: Section H  Row 23  Tree 3

Arlington Accession No. 6438 (See also #8193  J : 17-18 : 2)
Pom. No. 40653

Year: 1922
Date Picked: 9/6
Pomology Number: 102513

Year: 1923
Date Picked: 9/16 
Pomology Number: 104030

Year: 1924
Date Picked: 10/21
Pomology Number: 106021

Year: 1925
Date Picked: 
Pomology Number:

Year: 1926
Date Picked: 9/17
Pomology Number: 108181

Year: 9/21
Date Picked: 109432
Pomology Number:

Year: 10/23
Date Picked: 110716
Pomology Number:

Year: 1929
Date Picked: 
Pomology Number:

Year: 1930
Date Picked: 
Pomology Number:

Year: 1931
Date Picked: 
Pomology Number:

Blossom dates:
1924 - 5/2, 90% buds open; 5/6, considerably past full
1925 - 4/15, 90% buds open; 4/20, considerably past full
1926 - 4/30, 75% buds open
<s>1927</s> 1928 - 4/20, first bloom; 4/26, 20% buds open; 5/1, 90% buds open

Remarks:
Row 24, T3, supposedly
Carsonwas something else, identity undetermined.
It was a poor weak tree: fruit some seasons
suggested Baldwin and may habe been that variety.
This tree & fruit are not included in this report
otherwise then by this statement.
<s>Characterization:</s> Specimens in 1922 and in 1923 were
labeled Shackleford - which they clearly were not.
Acc. No. 6438 in Arlington records is Carson.

Characterization:
Size variable from very large to medium: roundish
conic to oblate (similar to paintings on file).  Ground
color yellowish, overspread in better colored specimens
with thin wash of very bright red, indistinct stripes.
some spec. red wash is litte more than a blush.
Dots numerous variable, whitish, not conspicuous; other
spec. raised and pimply similar to twenty-ounce; still
others brownish and even with surface.
Cavity deep, abrupt, lipped; stem ½" Basin deep, abrupt
(over)
        