Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
French Pippin Apple
French Pippin is a heritage apple cultivar dating to before 1850. It was grown primarily for eating. Flesh yellowish, tender, subacid, good. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 3 watercolour studies (1875), painted by Royal Charles b. Steadman and M. Strange, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | French Pippin |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1875 |
| Artist(s) | Steadman, Royal Charles b., Strange, M. |
| Specimen origin | Ohio, Wayne, Wooster |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 3 |
All 3 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00000019, POM00001902, POM00001903.
