Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Blue Pearmain Apple
Blue Pearmain is a heritage apple cultivar from US. It was grown primarily for cooking, cider, eating. A yellow apple with dark red stripes. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 6 watercolour studies (1860–1875), painted by Mary Daisy Arnold and Royal Charles b. Steadman, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Blue Pearmain |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1860–1875 |
| Artist(s) | Arnold, Mary Daisy, Steadman, Royal Charles b., Newton, Amanda Almira |
| Specimen origin | Washington, Yakima, Yakima; New Hampshire, Rockingham, Derry; Maine, Oxford, Waterford; Canada, Fredericton |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 6 |
All 6 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00001403, POM00001404, POM00001405, POM00001406, POM00001653, POM00001654.
