Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Tart Bough Apple
Tart Bough is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in US (before 1830). Flesh is white, tender, juicy, subacid. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies (1873), painted by Ellen Isham Schutt and Bertha Heiges, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Tart Bough |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1873 |
| Artist(s) | Schutt, Ellen Isham, Heiges, Bertha |
| Specimen origin | Virginia, Falls Church |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 2 |
All 2 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00003539, POM00003540.
