Heirloom Fruit Watercolors

Apples · USDA pomological watercolour

Utter Apple

Historical USDA watercolour of the Utter Apple apple, painted 1873

Utter is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Wisconsin, US (1855). It was grown primarily for eating. Flesh is crisp, tender, juicy, subacid, good. 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.

CultivarUtter
SpeciesMalus domestica
Common fruitApple
Painted1873
Artist(s)Arnold, Mary Daisy
Specimen originIowa, Lee, Denmark
CollectionUSDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Plates1

Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate id: POM00003729.

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