Heirloom Fruit Watercolors

Apples · USDA pomological watercolour

Hagloe Apple

Historical USDA watercolour of the Hagloe Apple apple, painted 1860–1875

Hagloe is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in New Jersey, US (before 1817). It was grown primarily for cooking. Stalk short. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies (1860–1875), painted by Royal Charles b. Steadman and Amanda Almira Newton, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.

CultivarHagloe
SpeciesMalus domestica
Common fruitApple
Painted1860–1875
Artist(s)Steadman, Royal Charles b., Newton, Amanda Almira
Specimen originVirginia, Arlington
CollectionUSDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Plates2

All 2 plates

Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00002257, POM00002258.

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