Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Colton Apple
Colton is a heritage apple cultivar from Massachusetts, US. It was grown primarily for eating. A yellow apple. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 3 watercolour studies (1860–1873), painted by Amanda Almira Newton and Ellen Isham Schutt, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Colton |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1860–1873 |
| Artist(s) | Newton, Amanda Almira, Schutt, Ellen Isham, Thompson, Harriet L. |
| Specimen origin | Virginia, Arlington; Delaware, New Castle, Newark |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 3 |
All 3 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00001795, POM00001796, POM00001797.
