Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Scarlet Cranberry Apple
Scarlet Cranberry is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Virginia, US (before 1865). It was grown primarily for eating. Flesh is crisp, juicy, astringent, subacid, fair to good. 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 | Scarlet Cranberry |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1882 |
| Artist(s) | Lower, Elsie E. b., Heiges, Bertha |
| Specimen origin | Canada, Grimsby; West Virginia, Hampshire, Levels |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 2 |
All 2 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00003180, POM00003181.
