Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Gideon Apple
Gideon is a heritage apple cultivar from Minnesota, US. It was grown primarily for eating. Tree vigorous. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies (1872), painted by Bertha Heiges and James Marion Shull, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Gideon |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1872 |
| Artist(s) | Heiges, Bertha, Shull, James Marion |
| Specimen origin | Michigan, Benzie, Benzonia; Illinois, Cook, Evanston |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 2 |
All 2 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00002215, POM00003905.
