Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Winter Harvey Apple
Winter Harvey is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in US (before 1850). It was grown primarily for eating. Flesh us white, tender, juicy, subacid, good. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 3 watercolour studies (1840–1860), painted by Deborah Griscom Passmore and Amanda Almira Newton, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Winter Harvey |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1840–1860 |
| Artist(s) | Passmore, Deborah Griscom, Newton, Amanda Almira |
| Specimen origin | Maine, Franklin, North Jay; Tennessee, Johnson, Mountain City |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 3 |
All 3 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00000798, POM00000802, POM00001129.
