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VARIETY APPLE ORCHARD
Arlington Farm

Variety: Covert

Orchard location: Section G  Row 3-4  Tree 2

Arlington Accession No. 6300
Pom. No. 39282

Year: 1922
Date Picked: 9/28
Pomology Number: 102639

Year: 1923 - see below*
Date Picked: 
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Year: 1924
Date Picked: 10/4
Pomology Number: 105628

Year: 1925
Date Picked: 9/16
Pomology Number: 106814

Year: 1926
Date Picked: 9/24, 10/4
Pomology Number: 108189, 108190

Year: 1927
Date Picked: 9/13
Pomology Number: 109397

Year: 1928
Date Picked: 
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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, 75% buds open; 4/20 past full.
1926 - 4/30, 90% buds open.
<s>1927</s> 1928 - 4/20, first bloom; 4/25, 50% buds open; 5/1 petals falling but still some unopened buds.

Remarks: *Apparently mistake in 1923 in labeling
samples since the specimens were of a sweet
variety - records for 1923 therefore are discarded.
Scions from W. N. Irwin 3/10/08 - supplied by
J. R. Covert, Foreign Markets - U.S. D.A. 10/1/07

Characterization:  Size medium to fairly large; rounded
to slightly oblate, fairly regular.  Ground color
yellow, nearly covered with dull red striptes and splashes.
Highly colored but shade is too dull to be attractive.
whitish bloom- sometimes heavy. Dots many,
minute, whitish, inconspicuous. Cavity medium
depth, abrupt.  Basin medium in depth and width.
Flesh yellowish, fairly fine grain, fairly tender,
tends to lack juice, mildly acid, flat, not much
to it 10/16/24.  in season now, or a little past.
1925. some watercore
Several seasons color and bloom resemblance 
to Blue Pearmain was mentioned.

        