Heirloom Fruit Watercolors

Apples · USDA pomological watercolour

Grove Apple

Historical USDA watercolour of the Grove Apple apple, painted 1873

Grove is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Missouri, US (introduced 1935). P Ingram x Delicious. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with a watercolour study (1873), painted by Mary Daisy Arnold, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.

CultivarGrove
SpeciesMalus domestica
Common fruitApple
Painted1873
Artist(s)Arnold, Mary Daisy
Specimen originMissouri, Wright, Mountain Grove
CollectionUSDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Plates1

Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate id: POM00002245.

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