Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Holland Pippin Apple
Holland Pippin is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Ontario, Canada or US (before 1820). It was grown primarily for cooking, pie. Width 77 mm, height 58 mm. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies (1840), painted by Bertha Heiges and Deborah Griscom Passmore, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Holland Pippin |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1840 |
| Artist(s) | Heiges, Bertha, Passmore, Deborah Griscom |
| Specimen origin | Canada, Saint Catharines; Maryland, Howard, Ellicott City |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 2 |
All 2 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00000382, POM00000383.
