Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Royal Jubilee Apple
Royal Jubilee is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Middlesex, England (1888, introduced 1893). It was grown primarily for cooking, juice. Large yellow conical cooking apple. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies (1873–1875), painted by Mary Daisy Arnold and Royal Charles b. Steadman, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Royal Jubilee |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1873–1875 |
| Artist(s) | Arnold, Mary Daisy, Steadman, Royal Charles b. |
| Specimen origin | Virginia, Arlington |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 2 |
All 2 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00000504, POM00000505.
