Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Belle de Boskoop Apple
Belle de Boskoop is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Boskoop, Netherlands (1856). It was grown primarily for cooking, baking. Width 73–95 mm, height 67–87 mm, weight 205 g. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies, painted by Bertha Heiges, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Belle de Boskoop |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Artist(s) | Heiges, Bertha |
| Specimen origin | New York, Onondaga, Syracuse; Vermont, Lamville, Cambridge |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 2 |
All 2 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00001416, POM00001417.
