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VARIETY APPLE ORCHARD
Arlington Farm

Variety: De Chataignier

Orchard location: Section C  Row 5-6  Tree 3

Arlington Accession No. 1993
Pom. No. 24163  S.P.I. 8450

Year: 1922
Date Picked: 10/7 
Pomology Number: 102780

Year: 1923
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Year: 1924
Date Picked: 11/4
Pomology Number: 105957

Year: 1925
Date Picked: 10/5
Pomology Number: 107094

Year: 1926
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Year: 1927
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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 - 5/1, 40% buds open; 5/3, full bloom
1925 - 4/14, full bloom.
1926
1927

Remarks:  Received in 1902 as root grafts:
from Algeria through C. S. Scofield
then at Oran, Algeria.
No record as to characteristic of this variety
- unless in S.P.I.

Characterization: Medium size, roundish to 
slightly oblate conic; ground color yellow some
fruits show faint suggestion of stripes radiating
from cavity; Dots mostly submerged and
in conspicuous, a few raised and dark brown or
black - latter possibly imperfections; flesh tinged
yellow, satiny, fine grain, rather tough, described
one season as fairly juicy, another as lacking juice; very
nearly if not quite sweet.  In 1925 there was much 
water core.  Seemingly without value as it
grew at Arlington.
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