Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Winthrop Greening Apple
Winthrop Greening is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Winthrop, Maine, US (before 1875). It was grown primarily for eating. Stalk is short. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies (1873), painted by Bertha Heiges and Mary Daisy Arnold, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Winthrop Greening |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1873 |
| Artist(s) | Heiges, Bertha, Arnold, Mary Daisy |
| Specimen origin | Maine, Lincoln; Maine, Hancock, East Orland |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 2 |
All 2 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00000807, POM00004257.
