Heirloom Fruit Watercolors

Apples · USDA pomological watercolour

Smokehouse Apple

Historical USDA watercolour of the Smokehouse Apple apple, painted 1840–1875

Smokehouse originated in Pennsylvania in the early 1800s as a chance seedling of the Vandevere apple. Yellow flushed and striped with red, it has crisp, juicy, mildly tart flesh and keeps well — a versatile all-purpose apple long popular in the mid-Atlantic.

CultivarSmokehouse
SpeciesMalus domestica
Common fruitApple
Painted1840–1875
Artist(s)Steadman, Royal Charles b., Heiges, Bertha, Passmore, Deborah Griscom, Newton, Amanda Almira
Specimen originVirginia, Arlington; Maryland, Garrett; Ohio, Morgan, Hooksburg; Maryland, Harford, Joppa
CollectionUSDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Plates9

All 9 plates

Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00003334, POM00003335, POM00003336, POM00003358, POM00003359, POM00003360, POM00003361, POM00003362, POM00003647.

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