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Sweet Delicious Apple

Historical USDA watercolour of the Sweet Delicious Apple apple, painted 1873

Sweet Delicious is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Geneva, New York, US (introduced 1922). It was grown primarily for eating, baking. P Deacon Jones x Delicious. 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.

CultivarSweet Delicious
SpeciesMalus domestica
Common fruitApple
Painted1873
Artist(s)Arnold, Mary Daisy
Specimen originNew York, Ontario, Geneva
CollectionUSDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
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Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate id: POM00003697.

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