Heirloom Fruit Watercolors

Apples · USDA pomological watercolour

Summer Rambo Apple

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

Summer Rambo descends from the old French Rambour apple recorded in the 1500s. Large and flattened, green-yellow streaked with red, it has tender, juicy, sweet-tart flesh and ripens early, serving as both an early cooking and fresh-eating apple.

CultivarSummer Rambo
SpeciesMalus domestica
Common fruitApple
Painted1840–1875
Artist(s)Steadman, Royal Charles b., Passmore, Deborah Griscom, Arnold, Mary Daisy, Heiges, Bertha
Specimen originVirginia, Arlington; Pennsylvania, Lancaster, Marietta; West Virginia, Mineral, Keyser; Pennsylvania, Bucks, Weisel
CollectionUSDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Plates10

All 10 plates

Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00003309, POM00003351, POM00003352, POM00003545, POM00003546, POM00003547, POM00003548, POM00003549, POM00003550, POM00003708.

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