Heirloom Fruit Watercolors

Apples · USDA pomological watercolour

Collamer Apple

Historical USDA watercolour of the Collamer Apple apple, painted 1882

Collamer is a heritage apple cultivar from New York, US. A sport of Twenty Ounce. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies (1882), painted by Bertha Heiges and Elsie E. b. Lower, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.

CultivarCollamer
SpeciesMalus domestica
Common fruitApple
Painted1882
Artist(s)Heiges, Bertha, Lower, Elsie E. b.
Specimen originNew York, Monroe, Hilton; New York, Columbia, Ghent
CollectionUSDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Plates2

All 2 plates

Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00001779, POM00001780.

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