Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Wine Apple
Wine is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in US (before 1850). It was grown primarily for cooking, eating. A large apple. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 5 watercolour studies (1840–1873), painted by Deborah Griscom Passmore and Bertha Heiges, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Wine |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1840–1873 |
| Artist(s) | Passmore, Deborah Griscom, Heiges, Bertha, Schutt, Ellen Isham, Newton, Amanda Almira |
| Specimen origin | Pennsylvania, Juniata, Mexico; Washington, Walla Walla, Waitsburg; Maryland, Howard, Brighton; Arkansas, Newton |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 5 |
All 5 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00004216, POM00004217, POM00004218, POM00004219, POM00004220.
