Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Delicious Apple
Delicious — later known as Red Delicious — began as a chance seedling on Jesse Hiatt's farm near Peru, Iowa, in the 1870s. Hiatt called it "Hawkeye"; Stark Brothers Nursery bought the rights in 1894 and renamed it "Delicious." Its elongated, five-knobbed shape and deep crimson skin helped make it the most widely grown apple in twentieth-century America, and USDA artists documented it heavily as it reshaped commercial orchards.
| Cultivar | Delicious |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1840–1875 |
| Artist(s) | Arnold, Mary Daisy, Shull, James Marion, Steadman, Royal Charles b., Heiges, Bertha |
| Specimen origin | Virginia, Arlington; Washington, Chelan, Wenatchee; Maryland, Montgomery, Ednor; Missouri, Pike, Louisiana |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 37 |
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Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00000346, POM00000891, POM00000894, POM00000968, POM00001240, POM00001911, POM00001912, POM00001913, POM00001914, POM00001915, POM00001916, POM00001917, POM00001918, POM00001919, POM00001920, POM00001921, POM00001922, POM00002001, POM00002002, POM00002003, POM00002004, POM00002005, POM00002006, POM00002007, POM00002008, POM00002058, POM00002059, POM00002060, POM00002061, POM00002062, POM00002088, POM00002089, POM00002090, POM00002091, POM00002092, POM00002161, POM00003815.
