Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Hiester Apple
Hiester is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Pennsylvania, US (before 1875). It was grown primarily for eating. Flesh white, crisp, juicy, subacid, good. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies (1840), painted by Deborah Griscom Passmore, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Hiester |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1840 |
| Artist(s) | Passmore, Deborah Griscom |
| Specimen origin | Pennsylvania, Berks, Reading; Pennsylvania, York, York |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 2 |
All 2 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00000371, POM00000372.
