Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Titus Pippin Apple
Titus Pippin is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Long Island, US (before 1870). It was grown primarily for eating. Flesh is whitish yellow, juicy, tender, subacid. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 3 watercolour studies (1860–1875), painted by Mary Daisy Arnold and Amanda Almira Newton, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Titus Pippin |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1860–1875 |
| Artist(s) | Arnold, Mary Daisy, Newton, Amanda Almira, Steadman, Royal Charles b. |
| Specimen origin | Massachusetts, Worcester, Worcester; Virginia, Arlington |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 3 |
All 3 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00003808, POM00003809, POM00003810.
