Heirloom Fruit Watercolors

Apples · USDA pomological watercolour

Lowell Apple

Historical USDA watercolour of the Lowell Apple apple, painted 1873

Lowell is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in US (before 1848). It was grown primarily for eating, cooking, drying. Width 83 mm, height 75 mm. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies (1873), painted by Mary Daisy Arnold and M. Strange, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.

CultivarLowell
SpeciesMalus domestica
Common fruitApple
Painted1873
Artist(s)Arnold, Mary Daisy, Strange, M.
Specimen originVirginia, Arlington; Massachusetts, Franklin, Warwick
CollectionUSDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Plates2

All 2 plates

Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00002743, POM00002744.

More heirloom Apple varieties