Heirloom Fruit Watercolors

Apples · USDA pomological watercolour

Fall Harvey Apple

Historical USDA watercolour of the Fall Harvey Apple apple, painted 1860

Fall Harvey is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in US (before 1838). It was grown primarily for eating. Flesh whitish, crisp, juicy, subacid, high flavor. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies (1860), painted by Amanda Almira Newton, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.

CultivarFall Harvey
SpeciesMalus domestica
Common fruitApple
Painted1860
Artist(s)Newton, Amanda Almira
Specimen originMassachusetts, Worcester, Oxford
CollectionUSDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Plates2

All 2 plates

Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00001978, POM00001979.

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