Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Golden Delicious Apple
Golden Delicious arose as a chance seedling on the Mullins family farm in Clay County, West Virginia, around 1905. Stark Brothers Nursery purchased it in 1914 — reportedly for $5,000 — and named it to pair with their Red Delicious, though the two are unrelated. A sweet, yellow, all-purpose apple, it became one of the most important parents in modern apple breeding, and its rise is recorded in the USDA collection.
| Cultivar | Golden Delicious |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1860–1875 |
| Artist(s) | Shull, James Marion, Steadman, Royal Charles b., Arnold, Mary Daisy, Newton, Amanda Almira |
| Specimen origin | Indiana, Knox, Vincennes; Oklahoma; Missouri, Pike, Louisiana; Virginia, Fairfax, Vienna |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 11 |
All 11 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00000932, POM00002070, POM00002071, POM00002072, POM00002073, POM00002074, POM00002075, POM00002076, POM00002077, POM00002078, POM00002079.
