Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Lacker Apple
Lacker is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Pennsylvania, US (before 1800). It was grown primarily for eating. Flesh white, juicy, subacid, aromatic. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies (1840), painted by Deborah Griscom Passmore and Bertha Heiges, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Lacker |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1840 |
| Artist(s) | Passmore, Deborah Griscom, Heiges, Bertha |
| Specimen origin | New York, Ontario, Geneva; Michigan, Lenawee, Adrian |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 2 |
All 2 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00002451, POM00002452.
