Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Crawford Apple
Crawford is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in US (before 1850). It was grown primarily for eating. Flesh yellow, tender, juicy, subacid. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies, painted by Henry G. Van Deman and Bertha Heiges, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Crawford |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Artist(s) | Van Deman, Henry G., Heiges, Bertha |
| Specimen origin | Arkansas, Boonesborough; West Virginia, Morgan, Paw Paw |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 2 |
All 2 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00000043, POM00001859.
