Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Priestly Apple
Priestly is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Pennsylvania, US (before 1820). It was grown primarily for eating. cooking.. Flesh is white, juicy, aromatic. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 3 watercolour studies (1873), painted by Bertha Heiges and Mary Daisy Arnold, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Priestly |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1873 |
| Artist(s) | Heiges, Bertha, Arnold, Mary Daisy, Strange, M. |
| Specimen origin | United States; New York, Rockland, Suffern; West Virginia, Wood, Belleville |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 3 |
All 3 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00002989, POM00002990, POM00002991.
