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Boone Crab Apple

Historical USDA watercolour of the Boone Crab Apple apple, painted 1840

Boone Crab Apple is a historic fruit cultivar documented by the U.S. Department of Agriculture between 1886 and 1942. A watercolour study of it survives in the collection, painted by Passmore, Deborah Griscom. The paintings served as official botanical identification records before colour photography.

CultivarBoone Crab
SpeciesMalus
Common fruitApple
Painted1840
Artist(s)Passmore, Deborah Griscom
CollectionUSDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Plates1

Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate id: POM00003578.

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