Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Carlough Apple
Carlough is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in New York, US (before 1899). It was grown primarily for eating. Flesh whitish, tender, juicy, subacid, good. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 3 watercolour studies (1873), painted by Mary Daisy Arnold and Bertha Heiges, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Carlough |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1873 |
| Artist(s) | Arnold, Mary Daisy, Heiges, Bertha |
| Specimen origin | Virginia, Arlington; Canada, Trenton; West Virginia, Monroe, Sinks Grove |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 3 |
All 3 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00001575, POM00001576, POM00001577.
