Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Hog Island Sweet Apple
Hog Island Sweet is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in New York, US (before 1857). It was grown primarily for eating. Flesh yellow, juicy, crisp, tender, aromatic, very sweet, good to very good. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies (1840–1873), painted by Mary Daisy Arnold and Deborah Griscom Passmore, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Hog Island Sweet |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1840–1873 |
| Artist(s) | Arnold, Mary Daisy, Passmore, Deborah Griscom |
| Specimen origin | Virginia, Arlington; Michigan, Lenawee, Adrian |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 2 |
All 2 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00000378, POM00000379.
