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The Fruits of America Part 2: The US Department of Agriculture's 'Agricultural Explorers'
'Garcinia mangostana' (the mangosteen), watercolour by Deborah Griscom Passmore, 1909 – said to be agricultural explorer David Fairchild's favourite fruit. From USDA, Pomological Watercolor Collection This is the follow-on to my blog The Fruits of America Part 1: The US Department of Agriculture's Pomological Watercolor Collection , where I looked at its beautiful, but not particularly well-known, collection of watercolours of fruit and nuts begun in the late 1880's – an ex
gardenhistorygirl
Mar 30, 202313 min read
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