Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Swaar Apple
Swaar is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in New York, US (before 1804). It was grown primarily for eating. Width 78 mm, height 61 mm. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies (1840), painted by Deborah Griscom Passmore and Bertha Heiges, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Swaar |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1840 |
| Artist(s) | Passmore, Deborah Griscom, Heiges, Bertha |
| Specimen origin | United States; New York, Columbia, Ghent |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 2 |
All 2 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00003691, POM00003692.
