Heirloom Fruit Watercolors

Apples · USDA pomological watercolour

Red Sauce Apple

Historical USDA watercolour of the Red Sauce Apple apple, painted 1873

Red Sauce is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Geneva, New York, US (1917, introduced 1926). It was grown primarily for cooking. P Deacon Jones x Wealthy. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies (1873), painted by Mary Daisy Arnold, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.

CultivarRed Sauce
SpeciesMalus domestica
Common fruitApple
Painted1873
Artist(s)Arnold, Mary Daisy
Specimen originNew York, Ontario, Geneva
CollectionUSDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Plates2

All 2 plates

Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00000714, POM00000715.

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