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| USDA collection Hachia Roeding |
The USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection has loads of beautiful watercolor fruits (Wikipedia with links to the collection)
Search the collection. Captions are not all searchable so you have to (get to) look through them all. For example, Searching for Roeding does not pop up these persimmons and figs.
Selected here are fruits from (probably) Fancher Creek Nursery. Anything noted as Roeding would probably have been from his Fresno nursery - Fancher Creek Nurseries.
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| Calimyrna fig |
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| Calimyrna fig Roeding |
Calimyrna figs: G.C. Roeding.
Previous blog on Calimyrna fig.
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| Surprise (red-fleshed) in USDA1898. Also seen on p. 339 of Dan Bussey's volume 6. |
The Surprise apple is possibly a parent of the Pink Pearl apple that Albert Etter created and that the California Nursery Company propagated and sold.
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| Pink Pearl 2025 The skin takes on a caramel color when ripe. |
References
- Article about the Fig Hunter in Smithsonian "In California, the Search for the Ultimate Wild Fig Heats Up" by Jacob Roberts, who know more about the history of the Calimyrna fig than probably anyone else. He spent several weeks in Fremont looking through the archives of Fancher Creek and the California Nursery. He found us through the blog on Calimyrna figs. His thesis "The Fig King of Fresno: The Botanical Heist That Reshaped California’s Landscape" is great reading.
- USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection (Wikipedia with links to the collection) Search collection Captions are not all searchable so you have to (get to) look through them all!
- The Illustrated History of Apples in the United States and Canada (US) Buy it and on Cider Chat
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