Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Rock Pippin Apple
Rock Pippin is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in US (before 1850). It was grown primarily for cooking. Width 75 mm, height 75 mm. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies (1882), painted by Elsie E. b. Lower and Bertha Heiges, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Rock Pippin |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1882 |
| Artist(s) | Lower, Elsie E. b., Heiges, Bertha |
| Specimen origin | New York, Ontario, Geneva |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 2 |
All 2 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00000881, POM00003131.
