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Summer Bellflower Apple

Historical USDA watercolour of the Summer Bellflower Apple apple, painted 1873

Summer Bellflower is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in New York, US (before 1848). It was grown primarily for eating. P Esopus Spitzenburg x unknown. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with a watercolour study (1873), painted by Mary Daisy Arnold, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.

CultivarSummer Bellflower
SpeciesMalus domestica
Common fruitApple
Painted1873
Artist(s)Arnold, Mary Daisy
Specimen originVirginia, Arlington
CollectionUSDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Plates1

Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate id: POM00003447.

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